modal verb in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

modal verb in the PONS Dictionary

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This applies to the modal verbs ("can", "must", etc.), as well as certain related auxiliaries such as the "had" of "had better" and the "used" of "used to".
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The infinitive is used in present tense only with the modal verb "karid" (to be able).
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The modal verbs "nahi izan" and "behar izan" are also of this kind.
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The same modal verbs are also often used with present rather than future reference.
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Modal verbs and "zullen" (will) have forms without "-t".
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An example of such a word is the modal verb "can".
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Most combinations of tense, aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically, using constructions with auxiliary verbs and modal verbs.
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The subject of the modal verb takes the intransitive case.
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In addition, most modal verbs have a change of vowel in the singular.
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Because of this difference of syntax, "ought" is sometimes excluded from the class of modal verbs, or is classed as a semimodal.
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