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").
例文
1. How does this verb conjugate?
この動詞にはどのような語形変化がありますか?
2.a verb with an irregular conjugation
不規則動詞
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3.The verb is in the subjunctive.
という動詞は仮想語調である。
4.Of all these verbs the verb is the most extensively used.
これらの動詞の中で最も応用範囲が広いのはこの動詞です。
5.In narrative,the reporting verb is in the past tense.