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

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finite verb

He resumes the exhortation in a form slightly changed and with rising emphasis, passing from the participle to the finite verb: “And take the helmet of salvation.”

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

Every sentence, you recollect, must have one finite verb, or more than one, and one nominative, either expressed or implied, for, without them, no sentence can exist.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel

But, according to Rule 2d, "A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, must be in the nominative case."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The only finite verb in the sentence, and the principal one.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund