Dictionary

phrasal verb en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.
   • In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on. 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156:
   • In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.
2. (qualifier:more loosely) A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.
   • Thus, it would seem that as far as GAPPING is concerned, the whole expression put off is somehow treated as a single 'compound Verb'. But this is the very intuition which we encapsulated in analysis (125) (b), by giving the sequence [put off] the status of a single V constituent (i.e. by analysing it as a Phrasal Verb). Thus, facts about GAPPING lend yet further support to analysis (125). 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 98:

Forms

Coordinates

phrase · phrase · phrasal preposition · phrasal noun

Relateds

idiom

Translations (34)

de mehrgliedriges Verb (idiomatic phrase) · ka მრავალწევრიანი ზმნა (idiomatic phrase) · pl czasownik frazowy (idiomatic phrase) · hu többrészes ige (idiomatic phrase) · fr phrasal verb (idiomatic phrase) · km កិរិយាកន្សោម (idiomatic phrase) · mn хэлц үйл үг (idiomatic phrase) · ja 句動詞 (idiomatic phrase) · sv partikelverb (idiomatic phrase) · ka ფრაზული ზმნა (idiomatic phrase) · crh mürekkep fiil (idiomatic phrase) · el περιφραστικό ρήμα (idiomatic phrase) · cs frázové sloveso (idiomatic phrase) · hu határozós vagy elöljárós ige (idiomatic phrase) · ro locuțiune verbală (idiomatic phrase) · hu igei szókapcsolat (idiomatic phrase) · ka მრავალნაწილიანი ზმნა (idiomatic phrase) · ca locució verbal (idiomatic phrase) · fi partikkeliverbi (idiomatic phrase) · es locución verbal (idiomatic phrase) · ru фра́зовый глаго́л (idiomatic phrase) · oc locucion verbala (idiomatic phrase) · hu többszavas ige (idiomatic phrase) · ja 不変化詞動詞 (idiomatic phrase) · pt locução verbal (idiomatic phrase) · hu vonzatos ige (idiomatic phrase) · cmn 短語動詞 /短语动词 (idiomatic phrase) · pt verbo frasal (idiomatic phrase) · it verbo seguito da preposizione o avverbio (idiomatic phrase) · hu összetett ige (idiomatic phrase) · hu igekötős ige (idiomatic phrase) · hu frazális ige (idiomatic phrase) · it verbo frasale (idiomatic phrase) · fr verbe à particule (idiomatic phrase)