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Meaning of "preverb" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PREVERB

ˈpriːvɜːb


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREVERB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Preverb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PREVERB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Preverb

Although not widely accepted in linguistics, the term preverb is used in Caucasian, Caddoan, Athabaskan, and Algonquian linguistics to describe certain elements prefixed to verbs. In the context of Indo-European languages this term is usually used for separable verb prefixes. Theoretically, any prefix could be called a preverbal element. However, in practice, the term preverb applies more narrowly in these families, and refers to a prefixed element that is normally outside the premise of verbal morphology, such as locations of noun elements, or less often, noun elements themselves.

Definition of preverb in the English dictionary

The definition of preverb in the dictionary is a prefix or particle preceding the root of a verb.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREVERB

acerb · adverb · blurb · burb · curb · disturb · exurb · herb · kerb · Loeb · perturb · proverb · refurb · reverb · Serb · suburb · superb · urb · verb · willowherb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREVERB

prevenancy · prevene · prevenience · prevenient · preveniently · prevent · preventability · preventable · preventably · preventative · preventer · preventibility · preventible · preventibly · prevention · preventive · preventive medicine · preventively · preventiveness · preverbal

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREVERB

absorb · adsorb · auxiliary verb · barb · bicarb · carb · cowherb · Croato-Serb · garb · garden suburb · hairy willowherb · high-carb · linking verb · orb · phrasal verb · reflexive verb · rhubarb · rosebay willowherb · sentence adverb · weak verb

Synonyms and antonyms of preverb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «preverb» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PREVERB

Find out the translation of preverb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of preverb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «preverb» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

preverb
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

preverbio
570 millions of speakers
en

English

preverb
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

preverb
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

preverb
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

preverb
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

preverb
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

preverb
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

préverbe
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pepatah
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Präverb
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

動詞前辞
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

preverb
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pidhato
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

preverb
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

preverb
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Preverb
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

preverb
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

preverbo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

preverb
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

preverb
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

preverb
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

preverb
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

preverb
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

preverb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

preverb
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of preverb

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREVERB»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about preverb

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREVERB»

Discover the use of preverb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to preverb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the ...
d. preverb/iterative-preverb/iterative goh-do-ko-'e-ts'e-de-zhi areal-preverb/ iterative-preverb/iterative-unspecified Obj ect-human Subject-qualifier-stem ' break into (house) again' (639) The variable placement of the iterative can be attributed to ...
Keren Rice, S. R. Anderson, 2006
2
Worrorra: a language of the north-west Kimberley coast
A preverb used substantively as the object argument of a complex predicate may be postposed to its predicate head, as in (11.47a), for discourse-pragmatic reasons: (11.47a) Wala kanunerri, durr kumbu wala. wala ka=nu-na-eerri durr ...
Mark Clendon, 2014
3
Non-Transformational Syntax: Formal and Explicit Models of ...
Predicates consisting of a separable preverb and a verbal stem can serve as bases for derivational operations. The deverbal adjectival and nominal in (36) forms related to ära ostma 'corrupt, suborn' typify this possibility: (36) In summary, the ...
Robert Borsley, Kersti Börjars, 2011
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Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on ...
Unlike an English preposition and adverbial particle, a HH preverb can occur before, after, or completely separated from the verb it is associated with. Morphological, syntactic, and semantic phenomena associated with preverbs are numerous, ...
Anna Fenyvesi, 2005
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Tales from Maliseet Country: The Maliseet Texts of Karl V. ...
Preverb-verb and prenoun-noun complexes are accordingly inflected as units: inflectional prefixes are added to the first preverb or prenoun, if one is used, otherwise to the verb or noun stem. Thus the first-person prefix n(t)~ is added directly ...
Philip S. LeSourd, 2009
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Papers from the 2007 New York Conference
The two categories that form part of both representations is a base-generated PP and the PP occurrence in Spec,PredP that corresponds to the preverb. The third category is the quasi-argument, which in the case of H-preverbs is an adjunct ...
Marcel den Dikken, István Kenesei, Robert Michael Vago, 2009
7
Georgian: A Learner's Grammar
This is the first learner's grammar of this fascinating language to appear for many years.
George Hewitt, 2013
8
The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages
If there is no conjunct particle, then the first preverb is pretonic. If we add a conjunct particle to a verb with preverbs, then the previously pretonic preverb joins the rest of the verbal complex and participates in its metrical structure, causing the ...
Andrew Carnie Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Arizona, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Eithne Guilfoyle Head of Humanities, Design and Technology, 2000
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Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics
Std. Error Pr(construction) Effectsize (Intercept) 1.14 0.55 0.76 0.76 preverb.ad - 3.18 1.55 0.11 0.04 preverb.de -0.35 1.37 0.69 0.41 preverb.ex -0.04 0.91 0.75 0.49 preverb.in -1.20 1.31 0.48 0.23 preverb.intro 16.80 12160.00 1.00 1.00 ...
Barbara McGillivray, 2013
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Verb Clusters: A Study of Hungarian, German and Dutch
The phenomenon is known as 'preverb climbing' in Hungarian (see Farkas & Sadock 1989), a term which indicates that what is held responsible for the separation of the preverb and its selecting verb is leftward movement of the preverb.
Katalin É Kiss, Henk C. van Riemsdijk, 2004
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Preverb [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/preverb>. May 2024 ».
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