phrasal verb
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phrasal verb
noun phrasal verbs
- A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts. In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.
- A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning. Thus, it would seem that as far as GAPPING is concerned, the whole expression put off is somehow treated as a single 'compound Verb'. But this is the very intuition which we encapsulated in analysis (125) (b), by giving the sequence [put off] the status of a single V constituent (i.e. by analysing i
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noun idiomatic phrase
| Español | locución verbal |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 句動詞 kudōshi, 不変化詞動詞 fuhenkashi dōshi |
| 中文 | 短語動詞 /短语动词 duǎnyǔ dòngcí |
| Português | locução verbal, verbo frasal |
| Français | verbe à particule, phrasal verb |
| Deutsch | mehrgliedriges Verb |
| Italiano | verbo frasale, verbo seguito da preposizione o avverbio |
| Ελληνικά | περιφραστικό ρήμα perifrastikó ríma |
| Română | locuțiune verbală |
| Русский | фра́зовый глаго́л frázovyj glagól |
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@misc{phrasal_verb_2026,
title = {phrasal verb},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/phrasal%20verb},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
