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我 wǒ I 帮 幫 bāng help 你 你 nǐ you 找 找 zhǎo find 他 他 tā him (simplified) (traditional) 我 帮 你 找 他 我 幫 你 找 他 wǒ bāng nǐ zhǎo tā I help you find him "I'm finding him for you." The above sentence represents a typical Chinese serial verb construction, with two consecutive verb phrases meaning "help you" and "find him", sharing the same subject ("I"), and ...
The emphasis can be on the action (verb) itself, as seen in sentences 1, 6 and 7, or it can be on parts other than the action (verb), as seen in sentences 2, 3, 4 and 5. If the emphasis is not on the verb, and the verb has a co-verb (in the above example 'meg'), then the co-verb is separated from the verb, and always follows the verb.
Proto-Indo-European verbs reflect a complex system of morphology, more complicated than the substantive, with verbs categorized according to their aspect [a], using multiple grammatical moods and voices, and being conjugated according to person, number and tense.
Verbs are given in their "dictionary form". The exact form given depends on the specific language: For the Germanic languages and for Welsh, the infinitive is given. For Latin, the Baltic languages, and the Slavic languages, the first-person singular present indicative is given, with the infinitive supplied in parentheses.
Verbs that have one or more prefixes, called "compound verbs", always take conjunct endings. In this case, stress generally falls on the syllable after the first prefix. Where only one prefix is present, that means stress falls on the verb root, but where two or more prefixes are present, stress then falls on the second prefix.
The team will formally introduce Schottenheimer during a news conference Monday. “Brian Schottenheimer is known as a career assistant,” Jones told ESPN.. “He ain’t Brian no more.
In syntax, verb-initial (V1) word order is a word order in which the verb appears before the subject and the object. In the more narrow sense, this term is used specifically to describe the word order of V1 languages (a V1 language being a language where the word order is obligatorily or predominantly verb-initial).
C2PC or C 2 PC – (i) Command and Control Personal Computer; C2V or C 2 V – (i) Command and Control Vehicle; C2W or C 2 W – (i) Command and Control Warfare; C3 or C 3 (i) Colorectal Cancer Condition; Command, Control, and Communications; C3I or C 3 I – (i) Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence