Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

verbo numeral

English translation:

numeral verb

Added to glossary by zabrowa
May 4, 2006 07:44
18 yrs ago
Portuguese term

verbo numeral

Portuguese to English Science Linguistics morphology
A forma é derivada do verbo numeral ‘são dois’
Proposed translations (English)
5 +6 numeral verb

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numeral verb

however, in which **a numeral verb is serialized onto a motion verb**, requires double ... intransitive: intradirective with numeral verb ...
muse.jhu.edu/journals/oceanic_linguistics/v043/43.1donohue02.pdf

esides decimare, **the only numeral verb** in the 1-10 range thus formed is tertiare which means "do a third time". (There is also secundare, but that one's ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Requests_for_verification_archive/October_2005

**A numeral verb can also be juxtaposed to the main verb** and the two must agree in subject and mood: da-l [um]eni-mo da-ru-dua (1pI-swim-perf 1pI-RED-two) ...
mercury.hau.ac.kr/kggc/Monthly/ReadingMaterial/Typology.doc

_ 'He gave me seven'; and **this curious way of using the numeral verb** is also shown in such an example as '_amahasi akombile_,' 'the horses have pointed,' ...
www.gutenberg.org/files/16449/16449.txt

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