English
Noun
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- Let's do lunch. (light verb)
- Let's lunch. (full verb)
- They had a read by candlelight.
- They read by candlelight.
- They took a bath together.
- They bathed together.
- They took a long vacation
- They vacationed for a long time.
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light verb (plural light verbs)
- (linguistics) A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun.
- Synonyms: vector verb, delexical verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb
- Coordinate terms: auxiliary verb, helping verb, full verb, lexical verb, main verb
Translations
thematically incomplete verb
- Catalan: verb lleuger (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 輕動詞 / 轻动词 (zh)
- Czech: kategoriální sloveso n
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: funktioverbi (fi)
- French: verbe léger (fr) m
- German: Funktionsverb (de) n
- Greek: απολεξικοποιημένο ρήμα (el) n (apolexikopoiiméno ríma)
- Hungarian: könnyűige, funkcióige, igésítő ige
- Italian: verbo leggero (it) m
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: функциона́льный глаго́л m (funkcionálʹnyj glagól)
- Spanish: verbo ligero m
- Swedish: funktionsverb n
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See also
- Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
- Category:English light verb constructions
Further reading