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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

규칙 동사

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gyuchik dongsa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Regular verb/ˈrɛɡ.jʊ.lər vɜːrb/
nounCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #2500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"동사 '걷다'는 규칙 동사입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A verb that forms its past tense by adding -ed to the base form.

    "The verb 'to walk' is a regular verb because its past tense is formed as 'walked'."
  2. 2

    A verb that follows a predictable pattern in its conjugation.

    "In English, regular verbs are easier to conjugate compared to irregular verbs."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'regular' from Latin 'regularis' (pertaining to a rule), derived from 'regula' (rule), and 'verb' from Latin 'verbum' (word). Together in grammatical terminology, it emerged in the early modern period to categorize words that conform to standard inflectional paradigms.

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