conjugating
Listing verb forms
Conjugating is changing a verb's form to indicate tense, person, number, or mood.
In English, this is relatively simple—walk becomes walks, walked, walking.
In languages like Spanish or Latin, conjugating involves memorizing extensive verb tables.
The term extends metaphorically to any systematic variation: conjugating possibilities, conjugating arguments across different scenarios.
Action-expressing word
- tenseStrained or nervous
- aspectFeature or dimension
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
- voiceSound from throat
person · number · irregular · regular · auxiliary · modal · participle · gerund
Nucleus-free single-celled organisms
- cellsBasic biological units
- fusionJoining into unity
- transferMove between locations
- plasmidSelf-replicating DNA circle
genetic · recombination · donor · recipient · prokaryote · horizontal · DNA · replication
Grammatical structure extraction
- phraseWords forming partial meaning
- clauseProvision in agreement
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- structureArrangement of interconnected parts
agreement · subject-verb · dependency · subordination · coordination · recursive · transformational · generative
verb
Action-expressing word
voice · person · number · irregular · regular · auxiliary · modal · participle · gerund · infinitive
bacteria
Nucleus-free single-celled organisms
plasmid · genetic · recombination · donor · recipient · prokaryote · horizontal · DNA · replication · microbiology
parsing
Grammatical structure extraction
- phraseWords forming partial meaning
- clauseProvision in agreement
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
structure · agreement · subject-verb · dependency · subordination · coordination · recursive · transformational · generative
- word changesdeclining, pluralizing, suffixing, prefixing, verb forms
conjugatingdeclining
Decreasing in strength
deriving · isolating · parsing · compounding
- verb conjugationAltering action-word forms