verb: [14] Latin verbum originally meant simply ‘word’ (a sense preserved in English verbal [15], verbiage [18], and verbose [17]); the specific application to a ‘word expressing action or occurrence’, which passed into English via Old French verbe, is a secondary development. Verbum goes back ultimately to the Indo- European base *wer-, which also produced English word. English verve [17] comes ultimately from the Latin plural verba. => verbose, verve, word
verb (n.)
late 14c., from Old French verbe "word; word of God; saying; part of speech that expresses action or being" (12c.) and directly from Latin verbum "verb," originally "a word," from PIE root *were- (3) "to speak" (cognates: Avestan urvata- "command;" Sanskrit vrata- "command, vow;" Greek rhetor "public speaker," rhetra "agreement, covenant," eirein "to speak, say;" Hittite weriga- "call, summon;" Lithuanian vardas "name;" Gothic waurd, Old English word "word").
实用例句
1. How does this verb conjugate?
这个动词有哪些词形变化？
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2. a verb with an irregular conjugation
不规则动词
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3. The verb is in the subjunctive.
这个动词是虚拟语气。
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4. Of all these verbs the verb is the most extensively used.
在这些动词中应用范围最广的是这个动词.
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5. In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.
