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The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.
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A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb.
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A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.
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the action of changing a verb to reflect person and number eg: I swim he swim they swim
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a system of verb forms. A given verb belongs to one of the four conjugations. The conjugation can be recognized from the infinitive: -are (long a) = 1st conjugation; -ere (long e) = 2nd; -ere = 3rd; and -ire (long i) = 4th.
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the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
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a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
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a set of verb endings, the rules you follow, for all regular verbs in each verb category
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A form-class of verbs characterised by inflectional patterns.
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Verbal conjugation refers to all the various forms of a verb. Some options include: tense, aspect, modality, person, gender, number, etc. Example: Present of the verb “to be” I am You are He/she/it is We are They are
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The inflection of verbs. In English there are two general areas in which conjugation occurs; for person and for tense.
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Lit. ‘Joining Together’. In grammar, this word is used to refer to the act of joining different endings to the stem of a verb, or to differentiate the different endings of the infinitive forms of verbs. eg. In Portuguese, ‘ar’ verbs are ‘first conjugation’; ‘er’ and ‘or’ verbs are ‘second conjugation’, and ‘ir’ verbs are ‘third conjugation
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