weak verb

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of a class of verbs which use a dental suffix appended to the stem to indicate the past tense.
    — A Weak Verb adds d, ed, or t, to the Present Tense, to make the Past Tense; as, invite, invited; betray, betrayed; step, stept.
  2. One of a class of verbs which use a dental suffix appended to the stem to indicate the past tense.; A regular verb of this class (thus excluding verbs that do have a dental suffix, but show some formal peculiarity, as in tell > told).
    — Storage clearly is assumed for irregular verb forms. But what about regular or weak verb forms?
  3. A member of a verb class that is customarily called “weak”, and usually distinguished from another class called “strong”.
  4. A member of a verb class that is customarily called “weak”, and usually distinguished from another class called “strong”.; A verb formed from a root that includes a semivowel or another consonant prone to elision (so-called “weak roots”).
    — Three basic root consonant classes exist: the strong verb, roots with weak initial root consonant (I-weak verbs), roots with weak final consonants (III-weak verbs), and a composite class...

词形变化

weak verbs plural

词源

Calque of German schwaches Verb (19th c.). Jacob Grimm called “weak” those classes of conjugation and declension which had lost more distinctions between forms or grammatical categories. The later use of Semitic is a semantic loan from Arabic فِعْل مُعْتَلّ (fiʕl muʕtall).
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