English
Noun
auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)
- (grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:auxiliary verb.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- (sometimes) temporal auxiliary verb, temporal auxiliary
- (sometimes) modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary
Translations
a helping verb
- Armenian: օժանդակ բայ (ōžandak bay)
- Bulgarian: спомагателен глагол (spomagatelen glagol)
- Catalan: verb auxiliar m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 助動詞 (zh), 助动词 (zh) (zhùdòngcí)
- Czech: pomocné sloveso n
- Danish: hjælpeudsagnsord n, hjælpeverbum n
- Dutch: hulpwerkwoord (nl) n
- Esperanto: helpa verbo
- Faroese: hjálparsagnorð n
- Finnish: apuverbi (fi)
- French: verbe auxiliaire (fr) m, auxiliaire (fr) m
- German: Auxiliar (de) n, Auxiliare (de) n, Auxiliarverb (de) n, Hilfsverb (de) n, Hilfsverbum n, Hilfswort (de) n, Hilfszeitwort (de) n
- Greek: βοηθητικό ρήμα n (voithitikó ríma)
- Hungarian: segédige (hu)
- Icelandic: hjálparsögn (is) f
- Ido: helpoverbo (io)
- Indonesian: kata kerja bantu (id), verba bantu (id)
- Irish: briathar cúnta m
- Italian: verbo ausiliaro m, ausiliare (it)
- Japanese: 助動詞 (ja) (じょどうし, jodōshi), 補助動詞 (hojo dōshi)
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See also
examples of English auxiliary verbs
- Other types of verbs: Wikisaurus:verb