infinitive in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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infinitive in the PONS Dictionary

infinitive Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be in the infinitive
American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
This was a syntactic feature where for was added to the to infinitive before verbs.
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There are three infinitives, which vary in their uses and their endings.
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The verb alone represents the present tense and the infinitive.
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As a verb, an infinitive may take objects and other complements and modifiers to form a verb phrase (called an infinitive phrase).
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But its substitution by the subjunctive form when the infinitive would be used as a verb is complete.
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The accent-marked infinitive "or" begins to outnumber the unaccented form around 1920.
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It is formed by the conjugated auxiliary verb "sein" (to be) followed by the preposition am and the infinitive, or the nominalized verb.
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If there are irregular present tense forms (see below), these are given in parentheses after the infinitive.
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However, both parts of the negation come before the targeted verb when it is in its infinitive form.
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It depends on the verb if the infinitive is in the strong or weak form.
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