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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔːɡˈzɪljəɹi ˈvɜː(ɹ)b/
Noun
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- I am going to Italy on holiday.
- I had never eaten octopus before.
- Who would have believed it?
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auxiliary verb (plural auxiliary verbs)
- (grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.
- Synonyms: auxiliary, helper verb, helping verb
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Translations
a helping verb
- Armenian: օժանդակ բայ (hy) (ōžandak bay)
- Belarusian: дапамо́жны дзеясло́ў (be) m (dapamóžny dzjejaslóŭ)
- Breton: verb-skoazell (br) m
- Bulgarian: спомагателен глагол (spomagatelen glagol)
- Catalan: verb auxiliar m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 助動詞／助动词 (zh) (zhùdòngcí)
- Czech: pomocné sloveso (cs) n
- Danish: hjælpeudsagnsord n, hjælpeverbum n
- Dutch: hulpwerkwoord (nl) n
- Esperanto: helpverbo (eo)
- Faroese: hjálparsagnorð n
- Finnish: apuverbi (fi)
- French: verbe auxiliaire (fr) m, auxiliaire (fr) m
- Galician: verbo auxiliar m
- Georgian: დამხმარე ზმნა (damxmare zmna), მეშველი ზმნა (mešveli zmna)
- German: Auxiliar (de) n, Auxiliare (de) n, Auxiliarverb (de) n, Hilfsverb (de) n, Hilfsverbum n, Hilfswort (de) n, Hilfszeitwort (de) n
- Greek: βοηθητικό ρήμα n (voïthitikó ríma)
- Hungarian: segédige (hu)
- Icelandic: hjálparsögn (is) f
- Ido: helpoverbo (io)
- Indonesian: kata kerja bantu (id), verba bantu (id)
- Irish: briathar cúnta m
- Italian: verbo ausiliaro m, ausiliare (it)
- Japanese: 助動詞 (ja) (じょどうし, jodōshi), 補助動詞 (ja) (ほじょどうし, hojo dōshi)
- Kazakh: көмекші етістік (kömekşı etıstık)
- Korean: 조동사(助動詞) (ko) (jodongsa)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: (please verify) lêkera alîkar
- Latin: verbum auxiliare n
- Latvian: palīga darbības vārds m
- Lithuanian: pagalbinis veiksmažodis (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Hëllefsverb n
- Malay: kata kerja bantu
- Malayalam: സഹായകക്രിയ (sahāyakakriya)
- Norman: vèrbe auxiliaithe m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjelpeverb n
- Nynorsk: hjelpeverb n
- Persian: فعل کمکی (fa), فعل معین
- Polish: czasownik posiłkowy (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: verbo auxiliar (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਸਹਾਇਕ ਕਿਰਿਆ (pa) f (sahāika kiriā)
- Romanian: verb auxiliar n, verb ajutător n
- Russian: вспомога́тельный глаго́л (ru) m (vspomogátelʹnyj glagól)
- Scottish Gaelic: gnìomhair taiceil m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: помоћни глагол m
- Roman: pomoćni glagol m
- Slovak: pomocné sloveso n
- Slovene: pomožni glagol m
- Spanish: verbo auxiliar (es) m, auxiliar (es)
- Swedish: hjälpverb (sv) n
- Tamil: துணைவினை (tuṇaiviṉai)
- Thai: กริยานุเคราะห์ (th) (grì-yaa-nú-krɔ́), กริยาช่วย (th) (grì-yaa-chûai)
- Turkish: yardımcı fiil (tr), yardımcı eylem (tr)
- Ukrainian: допомі́жне́ дієсло́во n (dopomížné dijeslóvo)
- Vietnamese: trợ động từ (vi) (助動詞)
- Welsh: berf gynorthwyol f
- Yiddish: (please verify) העלפֿווערב m (helfverb), הילפֿסווערב m (hilfsverb)
- Zazaki: fiilo peştiger
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See also
examples of English auxiliary verbs
- be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been, art
- can
- could
- do, does, did
- have, has, had
- may
- might
- must
- shall
- should
- will
- would
