finite verb

American  

[fahy-nahyt vurb] / ˈfaɪ naɪt ˌvɜrb /

noun

Grammar.

1. a verb form that distinguishes person, number, and tense, as well as mood or aspect: in She works from home, the verb works indicates a third-person singular subject (she ), present tense, and indicative mood, the mood used for ordinary statements and questions about facts.

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Etymology

Origin of finite verb

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun which usually denotes the subject of a finite verb.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the subject of a finite verb.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Using these as auxiliaries the finite verb makes a whole series of periphrastic tenses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

The subject of a finite verb is that which answers to who or what before it; as, "The boy runs."—Who runs?

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

When the noun or pronoun is the subject of a finite verb; that is, a verb other than an infinitive.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas