Infinitives

Synonyms for "infinitives" (6 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
infinitival clauseinfinitive form

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
infinitive forms

Related words (3)

Noun(3 words)
nonfinite clausenonfinite verb formnonfinite verb forms

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

6 entries
clausegrammatical formlinguistic categorylinguistic featurenonfinite constructionverb form

More specific

9 entries
bare infinitivebare infinitivescomplement infinitival clauseinfinitival clauseinfinitival clausesobject infinitival clausesubject infinitival clauseto-infinitiveto-infinitives

Collocations

6 entries
bare infinitiveinfinitive clauseinfinitive forminfinitive markerinfinitive phraseto-infinitive

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence.

Source: tatoeba (328681)

The Latin verb has six infinitives.

Source: tatoeba (1386915)

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