catenative verb

English

Noun

catenative verb (plural catenative verbs)

1. A verb able to be immediately followed by the full or bare infinitive, or gerund (i.e. non-finite verbs), as in “I beg to differ”, where beg is catenative.

Translations

verb able to be immediately followed

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 連接動詞／连接动词 (lin4 zip3 dung6 ci4)

  Mandarin: 連接動詞／连接动词 (liánjiē dòngcí)

• Finnish: ketjuverbi
• German: katenatives Verb n, verkettendes Verb n
• Russian: катенативный глагол m (katenativnyj glagol)

See also

• Appendix:English catenative verbs