Spanish Conversation · Level 4
87 words
Spanish word
verbo
Pronunciation
IPA/ˈbeɾβo/
Meaning
- masculine nounverb
Example
¿Cuál es el verbo de esta oración?
What is the verb in this sentence?
More examples
No sé qué verbo usar en esa respuesta.
I don't know which verb to use in that response.
Core concept
Word that names an action, event, or state and changes form for person and tense.
Common phrases
verbo transitivo
transitive verb
verbo intransitivo
intransitive verb
forma del verbo
verb form
conjugación de verbo
verb conjugation
Similar words
palabra: Conveys meaning as the basic unit of language, a general term for a single word.
sustantivo: Names people, things, places, or ideas and functions as the head of noun phrases.
adjetivo: Describes qualities, properties, or states and typically modifies a noun.
pronombre: Stands in for a person or thing, replacing nouns to avoid repetition.
Definition in Spanish
Elemento léxico que indica lo que sucede o cómo es algo; aparece como núcleo del predicado y admite conjugaciones así como formas no personales como el infinitivo.
Word origin
From Latin verbum 'word', adopted into Old Spanish and specialized as the term for the grammatical class of words that express actions, states, or processes and take inflectional endings.
Usage tips
- Spanish often omits the subject pronoun because verb endings indicate person, so the three conjugation types (-ar, -er, -ir) and key tenses are the fastest cues to a verb's role in a sentence.
Opposites
- sustantivonounnoun
Related words
- verbaloraladjective
- verbalmenteorallyadverb