"auxiliary verb" meaning in English

See auxiliary verb in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɔːɡˈzɪljəɹi ˈvɜː(ɹ)b/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-auxiliary verb.wav [Southern-England] Forms: auxiliary verbs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)
  1. (grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect. Wikipedia link: auxiliary verb Categories (topical): Grammar Synonyms: auxiliary, helper verb, helping verb Hyponyms: temporal auxiliary verb [sometimes], temporal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb [sometimes], modal auxiliary Translations (a helping verb): օժանդակ բայ (ōžandak bay) (Armenian), дапамо́жны дзеясло́ў (dapamóžny dzjejaslóŭ) [masculine] (Belarusian), verb-skoazell [masculine] (Breton), спомагателен глагол (spomagatelen glagol) (Bulgarian), verb auxiliar [masculine] (Catalan), 助動詞 (Chinese Mandarin), 助动词 (zhùdòngcí) (Chinese Mandarin), pomocné sloveso [neuter] (Czech), hjælpeudsagnsord [neuter] (Danish), hjælpeverbum [neuter] (Danish), hulpwerkwoord [neuter] (Dutch), helpverbo (Esperanto), hjálparsagnorð [neuter] (Faroese), apuverbi (Finnish), verbe auxiliaire [masculine] (French), auxiliaire [masculine] (French), verbo auxiliar [masculine] (Galician), დამხმარე ზმნა (damxmare zmna) (Georgian), მეშველი ზმნა (mešveli zmna) (Georgian), Auxiliar [neuter] (German), Auxiliare [neuter] (German), Auxiliarverb [neuter] (German), Hilfsverb [neuter] (German), Hilfsverbum [neuter] (German), Hilfswort [neuter] (German), Hilfszeitwort [neuter] (German), βοηθητικό ρήμα (voïthitikó ríma) [neuter] (Greek), segédige (Hungarian), hjálparsögn [feminine] (Icelandic), helpoverbo (Ido), kata kerja bantu (Indonesian), verba bantu (Indonesian), briathar cúnta [masculine] (Irish), verbo ausiliaro [masculine] (Italian), ausiliare (Italian), 助動詞 (jodōshi) (alt: じょどうし) (Japanese), 補助動詞 (hojo dōshi) (alt: ほじょどうし) (Japanese), көмекші етістік (kömekşı etıstık) (Kazakh), 조동사 (jodongsa) (alt: 助動詞) (Korean), verbum auxiliare [neuter] (Latin), palīga darbības vārds [masculine] (Latvian), pagalbinis veiksmažodis [masculine] (Lithuanian), Hëllefsverb [neuter] (Luxembourgish), kata kerja bantu (Malay), സഹായകക്രിയ (sahāyakakriya) (Malayalam), vèrbe auxiliaithe [Jersey, masculine] (Norman), hjelpeverb [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), hjelpeverb [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), فعل کمکی (Persian), فعل معین (Persian), czasownik posiłkowy [inanimate, masculine] (Polish), verbo auxiliar [masculine] (Portuguese), ਸਹਾਇਕ ਕਿਰਿਆ (sahāika kiriā) [feminine] (Punjabi), verb auxiliar [neuter] (Romanian), verb ajutător [neuter] (Romanian), вспомога́тельный глаго́л (vspomogátelʹnyj glagól) [masculine] (Russian), gnìomhair taiceil [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), помоћни глагол [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pomoćni glagol [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), pomocné sloveso [neuter] (Slovak), pomožni glagol [masculine] (Slovene), verbo auxiliar [masculine] (Spanish), auxiliar (Spanish), hjälpverb [neuter] (Swedish), துணைவினை (tuṇaiviṉai) (Tamil), กริยานุเคราะห์ (grì-yaa-nú-krɔ́) (Thai), กริยาช่วย (grì-yaa-chûai) (Thai), yardımcı fiil (Turkish), yardımcı eylem (Turkish), допомі́жне́ дієсло́во (dopomížné dijeslóvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), trợ động từ (alt: 助動詞) (Vietnamese), berf gynorthwyol [feminine] (Welsh), הילפֿסווערב (hilfsverb) [masculine] (Yiddish), fiilo peştiger (Zazaki)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for auxiliary verb meaning in English (11.7kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "full verb"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "sometimes"
      ],
      "word": "modal verb"
    },
    {
      "word": "modal"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "auxiliary verbs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Parts of speech",
          "orig": "en:Parts of speech",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Verbs",
          "orig": "en:Verbs",
          "parents": [
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "sometimes"
          ],
          "word": "temporal auxiliary verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "temporal auxiliary"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "sometimes"
          ],
          "word": "modal auxiliary verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "modal auxiliary"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-auxiliary_verb-en-noun-iu9heV~4",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "accompanies",
          "accompany"
        ],
        [
          "clause",
          "clause"
        ],
        [
          "distinction",
          "distinction"
        ],
        [
          "tense",
          "tense"
        ],
        [
          "mood",
          "mood"
        ],
        [
          "voice",
          "voice"
        ],
        [
          "aspect",
          "aspect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "be"
        },
        {
          "word": "am"
        },
        {
          "word": "is"
        },
        {
          "word": "are"
        },
        {
          "word": "was"
        },
        {
          "word": "were"
        },
        {
          "word": "being"
        },
        {
          "word": "been"
        },
        {
          "word": "art"
        },
        {
          "word": "can"
        },
        {
          "word": "could"
        },
        {
          "word": "do"
        },
        {
          "word": "does"
        },
        {
          "word": "did"
        },
        {
          "word": "have"
        },
        {
          "word": "has"
        },
        {
          "word": "had"
        },
        {
          "word": "may"
        },
        {
          "word": "might"
        },
        {
          "word": "must"
        },
        {
          "word": "shall"
        },
        {
          "word": "should"
        },
        {
          "word": "will"
        },
        {
          "word": "would"
        },
        {
          "word": "Other types of verbs: Thesaurus:verb"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "auxiliary"
        },
        {
          "word": "helper verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "helping verb"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "ōžandak bay",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "օժանդակ բայ"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "dapamóžny dzjejaslóŭ",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "дапамо́жны дзеясло́ў"
        },
        {
          "code": "br",
          "lang": "Breton",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "verb-skoazell"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "spomagatelen glagol",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "спомагателен глагол"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "verb auxiliar"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "助動詞"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhùdòngcí",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "助动词"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "pomocné sloveso"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hjælpeudsagnsord"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hjælpeverbum"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hulpwerkwoord"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "helpverbo"
        },
        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hjálparsagnorð"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "apuverbi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "verbe auxiliaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "auxiliaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "verbo auxiliar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "damxmare zmna",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "დამხმარე ზმნა"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "mešveli zmna",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "მეშველი ზმნა"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Auxiliar"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Auxiliare"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Auxiliarverb"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Hilfsverb"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Hilfsverbum"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Hilfswort"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Hilfszeitwort"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "voïthitikó ríma",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "βοηθητικό ρήμα"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "segédige"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hjálparsögn"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "helpoverbo"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "kata kerja bantu"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "verba bantu"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "briathar cúnta"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "verbo ausiliaro"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "ausiliare"
        },
        {
          "alt": "じょどうし",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "jodōshi",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "助動詞"
        },
        {
          "alt": "ほじょどうし",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hojo dōshi",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "補助動詞"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "kömekşı etıstık",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "көмекші етістік"
        },
        {
          "alt": "助動詞",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jodongsa",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "조동사"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "verbum auxiliare"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "palīga darbības vārds"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pagalbinis veiksmažodis"
        },
        {
          "code": "lb",
          "lang": "Luxembourgish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Hëllefsverb"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "kata kerja bantu"
        },
        {
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "sahāyakakriya",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "സഹായകക്രിയ"
        },
        {
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "Jersey",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "vèrbe auxiliaithe"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hjelpeverb"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hjelpeverb"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "فعل کمکی"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "فعل معین"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "inanimate",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "czasownik posiłkowy"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "verbo auxiliar"
        },
        {
          "code": "pa",
          "lang": "Punjabi",
          "roman": "sahāika kiriā",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ਸਹਾਇਕ ਕਿਰਿਆ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "verb auxiliar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "verb ajutător"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vspomogátelʹnyj glagól",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "вспомога́тельный глаго́л"
        },
        {
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gnìomhair taiceil"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "помоћни глагол"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pomoćni glagol"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "pomocné sloveso"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pomožni glagol"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "verbo auxiliar"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "auxiliar"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "hjälpverb"
        },
        {
          "code": "ta",
          "lang": "Tamil",
          "roman": "tuṇaiviṉai",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "துணைவினை"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "grì-yaa-nú-krɔ́",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "กริยานุเคราะห์"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "grì-yaa-chûai",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "กริยาช่วย"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "yardımcı fiil"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "yardımcı eylem"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "dopomížné dijeslóvo",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "допомі́жне́ дієсло́во"
        },
        {
          "alt": "助動詞",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "trợ động từ"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "berf gynorthwyol"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "hilfsverb",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "הילפֿסווערב"
        },
        {
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "a helping verb",
          "word": "fiilo peştiger"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "auxiliary verb"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɔːɡˈzɪljəɹi ˈvɜː(ɹ)b/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-auxiliary verb.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-auxiliary_verb.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-auxiliary_verb.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-auxiliary_verb.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-auxiliary_verb.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "auxiliary verb"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "full verb"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "sometimes"
      ],
      "word": "modal verb"
    },
    {
      "word": "modal"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "auxiliary verbs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "sometimes"
      ],
      "word": "temporal auxiliary verb"
    },
    {
      "word": "temporal auxiliary"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "sometimes"
      ],
      "word": "modal auxiliary verb"
    },
    {
      "word": "modal auxiliary"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "be"
    },
    {
      "word": "am"
    },
    {
      "word": "is"
    },
    {
      "word": "are"
    },
    {
      "word": "was"
    },
    {
      "word": "were"
    },
    {
      "word": "being"
    },
    {
      "word": "been"
    },
    {
      "word": "art"
    },
    {
      "word": "can"
    },
    {
      "word": "could"
    },
    {
      "word": "do"
    },
    {
      "word": "does"
    },
    {
      "word": "did"
    },
    {
      "word": "have"
    },
    {
      "word": "has"
    },
    {
      "word": "had"
    },
    {
      "word": "may"
    },
    {
      "word": "might"
    },
    {
      "word": "must"
    },
    {
      "word": "shall"
    },
    {
      "word": "should"
    },
    {
      "word": "will"
    },
    {
      "word": "would"
    },
    {
      "word": "Other types of verbs: Thesaurus:verb"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Requests for review of Northern Kurdish translations",
        "Requests for review of Yiddish translations",
        "en:Grammar",
        "en:Parts of speech",
        "en:Verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "accompanies",
          "accompany"
        ],
        [
          "clause",
          "clause"
        ],
        [
          "distinction",
          "distinction"
        ],
        [
          "tense",
          "tense"
        ],
        [
          "mood",
          "mood"
        ],
        [
          "voice",
          "voice"
        ],
        [
          "aspect",
          "aspect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "auxiliary"
        },
        {
          "word": "helper verb"
        },
        {
          "word": "helping verb"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "auxiliary verb"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɔːɡˈzɪljəɹi ˈvɜː(ɹ)b/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-auxiliary verb.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-auxiliary_verb.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-auxiliary_verb.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/31/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-auxiliary_verb.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-auxiliary_verb.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ōžandak bay",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "օժանդակ բայ"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "dapamóžny dzjejaslóŭ",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дапамо́жны дзеясло́ў"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verb-skoazell"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "spomagatelen glagol",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "спомагателен глагол"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verb auxiliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "助動詞"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhùdòngcí",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "助动词"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pomocné sloveso"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hjælpeudsagnsord"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hjælpeverbum"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hulpwerkwoord"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "helpverbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hjálparsagnorð"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "apuverbi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verbe auxiliaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "auxiliaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verbo auxiliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "damxmare zmna",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "დამხმარე ზმნა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mešveli zmna",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "მეშველი ზმნა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Auxiliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Auxiliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Auxiliarverb"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hilfsverb"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hilfsverbum"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hilfswort"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hilfszeitwort"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "voïthitikó ríma",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "βοηθητικό ρήμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "segédige"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hjálparsögn"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "helpoverbo"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "kata kerja bantu"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "verba bantu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "briathar cúnta"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verbo ausiliaro"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "ausiliare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じょどうし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jodōshi",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "助動詞"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほじょどうし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hojo dōshi",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "補助動詞"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "kömekşı etıstık",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "көмекші етістік"
    },
    {
      "alt": "助動詞",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jodongsa",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "조동사"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "verbum auxiliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "palīga darbības vārds"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pagalbinis veiksmažodis"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hëllefsverb"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "kata kerja bantu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "sahāyakakriya",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "സഹായകക്രിയ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "Jersey",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vèrbe auxiliaithe"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hjelpeverb"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hjelpeverb"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "فعل کمکی"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "فعل معین"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "czasownik posiłkowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verbo auxiliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pa",
      "lang": "Punjabi",
      "roman": "sahāika kiriā",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ਸਹਾਇਕ ਕਿਰਿਆ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "verb auxiliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "verb ajutător"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vspomogátelʹnyj glagól",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вспомога́тельный глаго́л"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gnìomhair taiceil"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "помоћни глагол"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pomoćni glagol"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pomocné sloveso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pomožni glagol"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verbo auxiliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "auxiliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hjälpverb"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "tuṇaiviṉai",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "துணைவினை"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "grì-yaa-nú-krɔ́",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "กริยานุเคราะห์"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "grì-yaa-chûai",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "กริยาช่วย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "yardımcı fiil"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "yardımcı eylem"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dopomížné dijeslóvo",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "допомі́жне́ дієсло́во"
    },
    {
      "alt": "助動詞",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "trợ động từ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "berf gynorthwyol"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "hilfsverb",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "הילפֿסווערב"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "a helping verb",
      "word": "fiilo peştiger"
    }
  ],
  "word": "auxiliary verb"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.