compare (verb)

  • 21compare — [15] Compare comes via Old French comparer from Latin comparāre ‘couple, match’, a verb based on the adjective compar ‘equal’, a compound formed from the prefix com ‘mutually’ and pār ‘equal’ (source of English pair, peer, and parity). The Latin… …

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  • 22Germanic verb — The Germanic language family is one of the language groups that resulted from the breakup of Proto Indo European (PIE). It in turn divided into North, West and East Germanic groups, and ultimately produced a large group of mediaeval and modern… …

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  • 23Germanic strong verb — In the Germanic languages, a strong verb is one which marks its past tense by means of ablaut. In English, these are verbs like sing, sang, sung. The term strong verb is a translation of German starkes Verb , which was coined by the linguist… …

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  • 24Intransitive verb — In grammar, an intransitive verb does not take an object. In more technical terms, an intransitive verb has only one argument (its subject), and hence has a valency of one. For example, in English, the verbs sleep , complain and die , are… …

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  • 25modal verb — noun an auxiliary verb (such as can or will ) that is used to express modality • Syn: ↑modal auxiliary verb, ↑modal auxiliary, ↑modal • Hypernyms: ↑auxiliary verb * * * noun, pl ⋯ verbs [count] grammar : a verb ( …

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  • 26Proto-Indo-European verb — The verbal system of the Proto Indo European language was a complex system that utilized multiple grammatical moods, voices, with words being conjugated according to number, and tense. The complex system of adding affixes to the base of a word… …

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  • 27modal auxiliary verb — noun an auxiliary verb (such as can or will ) that is used to express modality • Syn: ↑modal auxiliary, ↑modal verb, ↑modal • Hypernyms: ↑auxiliary verb * * * modal [ˈm …

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  • 28Georgian verb paradigm — This article is about the conjugation of verbs in the Georgian language (focused on examples). The reader is advised to see Georgian grammar, especially if not familiar with the language, before attempting to read this article. Georgian verb… …

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  • 29Defective verb — In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb which is missing e.g. a past tense, or cannot be used in some other way that normal verbs come. Formally, it is a verb with an incomplete conjugation. Defective verbs cannot be conjugated in certain… …

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  • 30Separable verb — A separable verb is a verb that is composed of a lexical verb root and a separable second root (particle). In some verb forms, the verb and the particle appear in one word, whilst in others the verb stem and the particle are separated. Note that… …

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