"catenative verb" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: catenative verbs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: catenative verb Categories (topical): Grammar Translations (verb able to be immediately followed): 連接動詞 (Chinese Cantonese), 连接动词 (lin4 zip3 dung6 ci4) (Chinese Cantonese), 連接動詞 (Chinese Mandarin), 连接动词 (liánjiē dòngcí) (Chinese Mandarin), ketjuverbi (Finnish), katenatives Verb [neuter] (German), verkettendes Verb [neuter] (German), катенативный глагол (katenativnyj glagol) [masculine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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