The number of the subject (whether it's singular or plural) determines the number of the verb.
The verb "to finalize" became common in literary circles, expressing the permanence of printed words.
By shoving the verb over, Kiezdeutsch can emphasise not just who is doing something but when.
It was the first time I had heard the verb which now is practically a part of our everyday vocabulary.
Even the word tennis has French origins from the medieval era, derived from the tenez, from the verb tenir, to hold.
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And, as in English, makers have to protect their names: the verb eintuppern, from Tupper, as in Tupperware, is a registered trademark.
It would color, to use the verb, friends that we would have.
Scots words like bairn (child), midden (dump), muckle (large) and even kilt (from the verb kjalta, meaning "to fold") are derived from Old Norse.
After all, the first verb Charlie conjugated in his life, when he was just three and a half was the verb to Google!
Maybe there should be a day where, for example, with the filibusters, senators actually have to hang around and filibuster -- properly act out the verb, right?
Links between the verb and the country are disputed but some do find it offensive and Mr Gove isn't the only political figure to have apologised for use of it.
The story of the company was made the subject of a 2010 Hollywood film, The Social Network, and the firm has made the verb "to friend" a part of everyday language.
"It may be that the very wide definition of the word collusion that Judge Cory adopted was due to his concentration on one of the synonyms, namely the verb connive, " the inquiry report said.
Let me quote from that portion of his testimony, which appears on pages 512 and 513, which makes it clear that he wasn't ever claiming that he spotted that verb tense at the time in the Jones deposition, and his silence or his answer was based on spotting the verb tense then.
Though the column name was a sweet coincidence -- a play on the Spanish verb for pain, dolor -- once Ms. Prida took it over in the spring of 1998, it took fabulous form.
The root of the word duty is the Latin verb "debere" - "to owe", or "to have to".
The harsh, explosive consonants and the action-focused, verb-heavy monosyllables instantly immerse us in the hard, violent world of the goblins, who take pleasure in acts of cruelty.
To be primaried has become the most popular new verb on Capitol Hill.
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Dots over a single letter can change the tense or person of a verb, notes Keith Small, an American participant in the SOAS event.
Only thus can we probe, to borrow a key verb from the aficionados, the ridiculous for the sublime: those terrors, or unlikely consolations, that lurk within.
When I had my first job in journalism many, many years ago, I was told that I could never use the word contact as a verb.
New Horizons for Learning's open learning community on the Internet is called the Building - more a verb than a noun, as it continues to grow daily.
Calling it the "Horse" might not have been optimal, but giving it an animal name that doubles as a violent verb was a good move (the Ram is also Dodge's logo).
What with being the first to market with an innovative product, and having that device become a generic verb a la Xerox, we would have thought the company's future looked bright.
These days those of us who are still in the business are fighting the same losing battle against using impact as a verb.
By testing concepts on paper I came up with a 'noun' stack (operators like numbers and variable names) and 'verb' stack (every other element in the syntax chart).
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