auxiliary verb

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔːɡˈzɪljəɹi ˈvɜː(ɹ)b/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)

(grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.
Synonyms: auxiliary, helper verb, helping verb

Quotations

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Antonyms

full verb
(sometimes) modal verb, modal

Hyponyms

(sometimes) temporal auxiliary verb, temporal auxiliary
(sometimes) modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary

Translations

a helping verb

Armenian: օժանդակ բայ (hy) (ōžandak bay)
Belarusian: дапамо́жны дзеясло́ў (be) m (dapamóžny dzjejaslóŭ)
Breton: verb-skoazell (br) m
Bulgarian: спомагателен глагол (spomagatelen glagol)
Catalan: verb auxiliar m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 助動詞／助动词 (zh) (zhùdòngcí)
Czech: pomocné sloveso (cs) n
Danish: hjælpeudsagnsord n, hjælpeverbum n
Dutch: hulpwerkwoord (nl) n
Esperanto: helpverbo (eo)
Faroese: hjálparsagnorð n
Finnish: apuverbi (fi)
French: verbe auxiliaire (fr) m, auxiliaire (fr) m
Galician: verbo auxiliar m
Georgian: დამხმარე ზმნა (damxmare zmna), მეშველი ზმნა (mešveli zmna)
German: Auxiliar (de) n, Auxiliare (de) n, Auxiliarverb (de) n, Hilfsverb (de) n, Hilfsverbum n, Hilfswort (de) n, Hilfszeitwort (de) n
Greek: βοηθητικό ρήμα n (voïthitikó ríma)
Hungarian: segédige (hu)
Icelandic: hjálparsögn (is) f
Ido: helpoverbo (io)
Indonesian: kata kerja bantu (id), verba bantu (id)
Irish: briathar cúnta m
Italian: verbo ausiliaro m, ausiliare (it)
Japanese: 助動詞 (ja) (じょどうし, jodōshi), 補助動詞 (ja) (ほじょどうし, hojo dōshi)
Kazakh: көмекші етістік (kömekşı etıstık)
Korean: 조동사(助動詞) (ko) (jodongsa)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} lêkera alîkar
Latin: verbum auxiliare n
Latvian: palīga darbības vārds m
Lithuanian: pagalbinis veiksmažodis (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Hëllefsverb n
Malay: kata kerja bantu
Malayalam: സഹായകക്രിയ (sahāyakakriya)
Norman: vèrbe auxiliaithe m (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hjelpeverb n

Nynorsk: hjelpeverb n
Persian: فعل کمکی (fa), فعل معین
Polish: czasownik posiłkowy (pl) m inan
Portuguese: verbo auxiliar (pt) m
Punjabi: ਸਹਾਇਕ ਕਿਰਿਆ (pa) f (sahāika kiriā)
Romanian: verb auxiliar n, verb ajutător n
Russian: вспомога́тельный глаго́л (ru) m (vspomogátelʹnyj glagól)
Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhair taiceil m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: помоћни глагол m

Roman: pomoćni glagol m
Slovak: pomocné sloveso n
Slovene: pomožni glagol m
Spanish: verbo auxiliar (es) m, auxiliar (es)
Swedish: hjälpverb (sv) n
Tamil: துணைவினை (tuṇaiviṉai)
Thai: กริยานุเคราะห์ (th) (grì-yaa-nú-krɔ́), กริยาช่วย (th) (grì-yaa-chûai)
Turkish: yardımcı fiil (tr), yardımcı eylem (tr)
Ukrainian: допомі́жне́ дієсло́во n (dopomížné dijeslóvo)
Vietnamese: trợ động từ (vi) (助動詞)
Welsh: berf gynorthwyol f
Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} העלפֿווערב m (helfverb), הילפֿסווערב m (hilfsverb)
Zazaki: fiilo peştiger

auxiliary verb

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Noun

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