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

Lowth, Adam, Murray, Gould, Smith, Ingersoll, Comly, Lennie, Hiley, Bullions, Wells, and many others, say, "A simple sentence has in it but one subject, and one finite verb: as, 'Life is short.'"

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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.

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 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