Sentence examples for finite verb from inspiring English sources

Main clauses have the finite verb in second position.

The finite verb agrees with its subject in person and number and also marks the honorific form.

Finite: A finite verb has tense and can function as a main verb.

In principle, each tense stem provides five moods for the finite verb (with personal endings), a participle, and an infinitive.

New Indo-Aryan languages differ in the degree to which finite verb forms have been replaced by nominal (noun) forms.

The latter was characterized by a predominance of periphrastic verbal-noun constructions at the expense of forms of the finite verb.

In some languages participles have come to function as finite verbs.

Each language and subgroup has evolved many clitics or particles, mostly representing contraction of certain finite verbs.

The gender-number-person categories of the subject phrase in a sentence are reflected as the final constituent of certain finite verbs, as demonstrated by Tamil avan1 va-nt-ān2 (literally 'he1 come-past-person'2) 'he1 caMalayalamayalam has lost this agreement feature in finite verbs.

Dutch speakers with agrammatic Broca's aphasia are known to have problems with the production of finite verbs in main clauses.

There is a class of finite verbs that includes negation as part of the inflection, as in Konda vānṟu1 ki-ʕ-en2 (literally, 'he1 does-negative-he'2') 'he1 does not do2.' Proto-Dravidian has a negative verb *cil 'to be not,' which is complementary with the verbs meaning 'to be.' This is a typical feature of the Dravidian languages.