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Verb
* Many verbs have a passive form
  - an iterative form, which expresses repeated action
* Most verbs are part of copulas.
* Some verbs are multi-word verbs, made up of a verb and one or two particles
  - express action and are called action verbs
  - have both strong and weak forms, especially in the past perfect
* Some verbs have irregular future stems, which are the same as their irregular conditional stems
  - past tense forms
  - their direct objects in the dative case
  - two stems in the subjunctive
* Some verbs take either an infinitive or a gerund, only an infinitive, or only a gerund as objects
  - their direct objects in more than just the accusative case
* appear in the past, present and future forms.
* are action or existence words that tell what nouns do
  - actions
  - an important part of any language - every full sentence has one
  - conjugated by modifying their endings with word stems
  - inflected according to gender as well as person and number
  - just the opposite of nouns
* are located in books
  - sentences
  - messages sent from one object to the next
  - metaphors
  - predicates
  - parts of speech
* are the bringers of life
  - executable code associated with objects and which define how the object behaves
  - most important words in a sentence
  - words that express action or development
  - words of action
* are words that express action or state of being
  - show action or being
  - tell an action
  - used to describe what's going on and the way things are
* basically represent action, and adjectives represent condition.
* can modify nouns or other verbs, but nouns can only modify nouns directly
  - occur in compounds in which the second element indicates result or direction
* change form to show the time of the action or idea that they express
  - their endings for person, number, and tense
* describe actions and states
  - or states of being and therefore rank with nouns in force
* express actions, occurrences, or states of being.
* have a highly developed inflectional system
  - lot of forms, too
  - many different forms
  - present, past, future tenses, imperative and subjunctive moods
  - two functions in sentences
* involve the grammatical categories of number, mood, and tense.
* metamorphose into nouns, and nouns transform themselves into verbs at the drop of a suffix.
+ Esperanto, Grammar, Verbs
  * Verbs end in '-as' when they are in present tense. English uses 'I am', 'you are', 'he is'. But in Esperanto, there is just one word for 'am', 'are', 'is' - 'estas'. Similarly, 'kuras' can mean 'run' or 'runs'. Infinitives end in '-i'. For example, 'esti' means 'to be', 'povi' means 'can'.
+ Grammar, Parts of speech, Verbs
  * Verbs describe actions and states. The basic verb form is called the infinitive.
  * No, but you don't have to use only the words listed. First, all versions of a noun or adjective are included in the main word listed. Verbs are a bit trickier, but the infinitive plus basic tenses are included. Second, you can go outside Basic English, but take care to explain or 'translate' words readers might find difficult. There is a list of Most common words in English, and you should regard any word in the top 1,000 as being simple. Research has established that the more common a word is, the better it is understood.
+ Verb, Kinds of Verbs
  * The difference between them is mainly in where they can go in a sentence. Some verbs are in both groups, but there are very few auxiliary verbs in English. The table below shows most of the English auxiliaries and a small number of other verbs
  - Sentence parts that go with verbs, Objects
  * Many verbs can be followed by an object. These verbs are called transitive verbs. Verbs that do not take an object are called intransitive verbs. Some verbs can even have two objects. They are called ditransitive verbs. In the following examples, the object is underlined and the primary verb is in bold
+ Wenedyk, Grammar: Constructed languages