Other forms: verbs
A verb is a word that names an action or a state. An irregular verb, the main verb, conjugate the verb.
It is not only doing words: be, seem and know are all verbs and name states rather than actions, which is where the school definition breaks down. English has few endings and leans on auxiliaries instead, which is why learners meet so many of them.
1nounverbA word that names an action or a state.
“Our teacher asked us to underline the verb in each sentence.”
verb is a word class.
Latin verbum means a word. The verb was the word, which says what grammarians thought of it.
Proto-Indo-European
*werh₁-
Proto-Indo-European
*werdʰo-
Old French
verbe
Latin
verbum — word, verb
Middle English
verbe
English, today
verb
From Middle English verbe, directly from Latin verbum (“word, verb”), reinforced by Old French verbe, from Proto-Indo-European werdʰo-. a doublet of verve and word.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA