"verbform" meaning in English

See verbform in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: verbforms [plural]
Etymology: From verb + form. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|verb|form}} verb + form Head templates: {{en-noun}} verbform (plural verbforms)
  1. Alternative form of verb form Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: verb form
    Sense id: en-verbform-en-noun-LiDSs8qN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1983, Thomas M. Carter, Then and Now: The Mechanics of Integration, Historical Conservation Society (Manila), page 112,\n\"Thee/Thou\" speech merely substitutes (or were substituted by) some of the old personal pronouns. Also present in \"Thee\" speech is the occasional ancient verbform."
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          "text": "1990, Andries Breunis, The Nominal Sentence in Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan, Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 149,\nBefore we compare these constructions with a PPP connected to a verbform of \"to be\" in the third person, we shall first discuss the following phenomenon."
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