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G-form

G-form noun: the base form of a verb (as opposed to its extended verb forms), particularly in the Semitic languages.

Noun

G-form (plural G-forms)

  1. The base form of a verb (as opposed to its extended verb forms), particularly in the Semitic languages
    • Form I is the base, or ground, form of the verb and will be referred to henceforth as the "G-form," the Semitic designation, from Grundstamm (“base stem”)1994, Wheeler M. Thackston, chapter 23, in An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the Language, pages 139–140
    • Koranic Arabic verbs don't occur only with -a-a- vowels — like kataba ‘he wrote’ — in the Pf-stems of their active G-forms: some transitive action verbs like šariba ‘drink’ and several stative and psychological verbs like ḥasiba ‘suppose’ have i as their second stem vowel, [...]2007, Paolo Ramat, Elisa Roma, editors, Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective, page 11

Forms of G-form

pluralG-forms

Origin of G-form

From German Grundstamm.

Questions about G-form

What does G-form mean?
G-form means the base form of a verb (as opposed to its extended verb forms), particularly in the Semitic languages.
What part of speech is G-form?
G-form is a noun.
What is the plural of G-form?
The plural of G-form is G-forms.

Words near G-form in the dictionary

  1. g-flat
  2. G-flat major
  3. g-flats
  4. g-force
  5. g-forces
  6. G-form
  7. G-forms
  8. G-funk
  9. g-girl
  10. g-girls
  11. G-LOC

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