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As a bare infinitive that comprises a phrase rendered in the vestigial permissive mood, e.g. "Let it be." As a bare infinitive that comprises a phrase rendered as a hortative utterance, e.g. "Let's leave." As complements of certain fossil phrases such as had better and would rather (with bare infinitive), in order to, as if to, am to/is to/are to.
For each verb listed, the citation form (the bare infinitive) is given first, with a link to the relevant Wiktionary entry. This is followed by the simple past tense , and then the past participle. If there are irregular present tense forms (see below), these are given in parentheses after
The to-infinitive consists of the bare infinitive introduced by the particle to. [21] Outside dictionary headwords, it is commonly used as a citation form of the English verb ("How do we conjugate the verb to go?") It is also commonly given as a translation of foreign infinitives ("The French word boire means 'to drink'.")
For a more complete list, with derivations, see List of English irregular verbs. Further information, including pronunciation, can be found in Wiktionary. The list that follows shows the base, or infinitive form, the past tense and the past participle of the verb. a- : for abide, arise, awake, see bide, rise, wake; be (am, is, are) – was ...
It serves as the bare infinitive, and is used in the to-infinitive (e.g. to write); for uses see § Non-finite forms below. It serves as the simple present tense, except in the third person singular: I/you/we/they write regularly (and except for the highly irregular to be). It is used as an imperative: Write these words.
This is generally considered to be the situation with regular English verbs – from the one principal part, namely the plain form of a regular verb (the bare infinitive, such as play, happen, skim, interchange, etc.), all the other inflected forms (which in English are not numerous; they consist of the third person singular present tense, the ...
The zu-infinitive has nothing to do with the gerundive, although it is created in a similar way. One simply puts the preposition zu before the bare infinitive, before the permanent prefix, but after the separable prefix. zu lesen ‘to read’ Ich lerne zu lesen ‘I learn to read’ zu verlassen ‘to leave’
This second subordinated verb can be in either the infinitive (both full and bare) or gerund forms. An example appears in the sentence He deserves to win the cup, where "deserve" is a catenative verb which can be followed directly by another verb, in this case a to-infinitive construction. [1]