🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

verbo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈvɛr.bo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Verb/vɜːb/
nounCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #450 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il verbo esprime un'azione o uno stato."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence.

    "She wrote a letter to her friend, using a strong action verb to start the sentence."
  2. 2

    A conjugated word indicating the time, person, and number of the action performed.

    "Every complete sentence requires at least one subject and one finite verb."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verbum, meaning "word," tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root *werh₁-, meaning "to speak." Historically evolved to specifically denote the grammatical class of words that express an action, occurrence, or state of being.

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