For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

Similarly, the Italian verb corresponding to ' spell ( out )', compitare, is unknown to many Italians because the act of spelling itself is rarely needed: Italian spelling is highly phonemic.

Levant is derived from the French verb lever meaning " to rise " indicating that part of the world where the sun rises.

" It is often said that Korzybski opposed the use of the verb " to be ," which is an exaggeration ( see " Criticisms " below ).

He thought that certain uses of the verb " to be ", called the " is of identity " and the " is of predication ", were faulty in structure, e. g., a statement such as, " Elizabeth is a fool " ( said of a person named " Elizabeth " who has done something that we regard as foolish ).

The word " acoustic " is derived from the Greek word ακουστικός ( akoustikos ), meaning " of or for hearing, ready to hear " and that from ἀκουστός ( akoustos ), " heard, audible ", which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω ( akouo ), " I hear ".

Specifically, is the neuter plural of, an adjective related to the verb ἀποκρύπτω ἀποκρύπτειν ( apocriptein ), " to hide something away.

Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ), meaning " defending men " or " protector of men ", a compound of the verb " ἀλέξω " ( alexō ), " to ward off, to avert, to defend " and the noun " ἀνδρός " ( andros ), genitive of " ἀνήρ " ( anēr ), " man ".

In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

The accusative case ( abbreviated ) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.

In the sentence I see the car, the noun phrase the car is the direct object of the verb " see ".

If this article / noun pair is used as the object of a verb, it ( usually ) changes to the accusative case, which entails an article shift in German – Ich sehe den Wagen.

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ἀλέξειν ( alexein ) " to defend " and the noun ἀνδρός ( andros ), genitive of ἀνήρ ( anēr ) " man ".

... the same word is the present participle of the verb ' to be.

' As a verb, it no longer signifies something that is, nor even existence in general, but rather the very act whereby any given reality actually is, or exists.

It is a Subject – object – verb language and has two tones.

Except for one dubious example of a third-person feminine singular verb associated with Qoheleth, the subject always uses masculine nouns and even refers to his wife and women.

In many varieties, the third-person singular inflection is generalized to a present tense marker ; for example, the verb " to like " is conjugated I likes, you likes, he / she / it likes, we likes, you likes, and they likes.

Examples of plural forms are the French mangeons, mangez, mangent – respectively the first -, second-and third-person plural of the present tense of the verb manger.

" É " is also the third-person singular conjugation of the verb " ser " " to be ": " ela é bonita " " she is pretty ".

Although this is a second-person pronoun, it uses third-person verb forms ( and object pronouns, and possessives ) because it developed as a contraction of vuestra merced (' your mercy ').

Like usted, it uses third-person verb forms, for the same reasons.

** nós " we " is often replaced by a gente, conjugated with a third-person singular verb.

* lack of second-person verb forms ( except for some parts of Brazil ) and, in various regions, plural third-person forms as well ( mostly lower-class speakers ) ( tu cantas becomes tu canta or você canta ( Brazilian uses the pronoun " você " a lot but rarely uses " tu ", except in some states such as Amazonas and Rio Grande do Sul, in the latter " você " is almost never used in informal speech, with " tu " being used instead, using both second and third-person forms depending on the speaker )

When addressing older people or hierarchical superiors, modern BP speakers often replace ' você '/ tu and ' vocês ' by the expressions O ( s ) senhor ( es ) and A ( s ) senhora ( s ), which also require third-person verb forms and third-person reflexive / possessive pronouns ( or the expressions " de vocês " " do senhor " etc ... by the possessive ).

The second-person formal pronouns ( usted, ustedes ) take third-person verb forms.

Because of the literal meaning of these forms, they were accompanied by a third-person verb form.

In some other languages ( necessarily null subject languages and typically pro-drop languages ), such as Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, Catalan, Italian, Romanian, in Hungarian and all the Slavic languages, an impersonal verb takes no subject at all, but it is conjugated in the third-person singular, which is much as though it had a third-person, singular subject.

In the phrase I like-it, the verb conjugation has a zero affix, as opposed to the third-person singular present-s in he likes it.

Final-ent is silent as a third-person plural verb ending, though it is pronounced in other cases.

For example the verb ' to be ' has the principal parts be – was / were – been, showing an irregular past tense ( was for the first-and third-person singular, and were for the rest ), and an entirely irregular present tense ( using am, is and are instead of forms derived from the first principal part be ).

* In parlaient, the stem parl-indicates that the verb is parler ( to speak ) and the ending-aient marks the third-person plural imperfect indicative.

In a diphthongizing verb, the change turns-e-into-ie-and-o-into-ue-when the syllable in question is stressed, which in effect happens only in the singular persons and third-person plural of the present indicative and present subjunctive, and in the imperative ( all other tenses and forms are stressed on their endings, not their stems ).

Vuestra merced ( literally ' your mercy ') is the origin of usted, usarcé and similar forms that govern third-person verb forms with a second-person function.

However, when a speaker wishes to emphasize that the individuals are acting separately, a plural pronoun may be employed with a singular or plural verb: the team takes their seats or the team take their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

However, confusion often stems from the fact that plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns ( for example: " The team have finished the project .").

Conversely, in the English language as a whole, singular verb forms can often be used with nouns ending in "- s " that were once considered plural ( for example: " Physics is my favorite academic subject ").

In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.

In American English, collective nouns almost invariably take singular verb forms ( formal agreement ).

" The word " mathematics " may have originally been plural in concept, referring to mathematic endeavors, but metonymic shift — that is, the shift in concept from " the endeavors " to " the whole set of endeavors "— produced the usage of " mathematics " as a singular entity taking singular verb forms.

The word " grits " is one of the few words that may properly be used as either singular or plural in writing or speech and can be used with a singular or plural verb.

* the deletion of the final-s and final-e when ne is added to a second singular verb

YHWH is an archaic third person singular imperfect of the verb " to be " ( meaning, therefore, " He is ").

With the exception of the verb to be, English shows distinctive agreement only in the third person singular, present tense form of verbs, which is marked by adding "- s " ( I & tbsp ; walk, he & tbsp ; walks ) or "- es " ( he fishes ).

For example, in French, the singular form of the definite article is le with masculine nouns and la with feminines ; adjectives and certain verb forms also change ( with the addition of-e with feminines ).

However, the term " collective noun " is often used to mean " mass noun " ( even in some dictionaries ), because users confound two different kinds of verb number invariability: ( a ) that seen with mass nouns such as " water " or " furniture ", with which only singular verb forms are used because the constituent matter is grammatically nondiscrete ( although it may or may not be etically nondiscrete ); and ( b ) that seen with collective nouns, which is the result of the metonymical shift between the group and its ( both grammatically and etically ) discrete constituents.

The number of apples is marked on the noun —" apple " singular number ( one item ) vs. " apples " plural number ( more than one item )— on the demonstrative, " that / those ", and on the verb, " is / are ".

The Techniques are named after the corresponding first-person singular present tense indicative mood Latin verb.

" The verb may be conjugated to indicate tense, but always remains in the third person singular.

They are given the name striges, singular strix, the word for an owl as a bird of evil omen and supposedly derived from the verb strideo, stridere, " shriek.

* titheisi ( n ) " he places ", " makes " ( 3rd person singular, present indicative active: athematic verb )

* The Romance languages have a variety of suppletive forms in conjugating the verb " to go ", as these first-person singular forms illustrate: