light verb

English

Noun

Examples
Let's do lunch. (light verb) Let's lunch. (full verb) They had a read by candlelight. They read by candlelight. They took a bath together. They bathed together. They took a long vacation They vacationed for a long time.

light verb (plural light verbs)

(linguistics) A semantically incomplete verb which qualifies as a predicate only in combination with a predicative complement, usually a noun.
Synonyms: vector verb, delexical verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb

Coordinate terms: auxiliary verb, helping verb, full verb, lexical verb, main verb

Translations

thematically incomplete verb

Czech: kategoriální sloveso n
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: funktioverbi (fi)
French: verbe léger (fr) m
German: Funktionsverb (de) n
Greek: απολεξικοποιημένο ρήμα n (apolexikopoiiméno ríma)
Hungarian: könnyűige, funkcióige, igésítő ige
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: функциона́льный глаго́л m (funkcionálʹnyj glagól)
Spanish: verbo ligero
Swedish: funktionsverb n

See also

Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Category:English light verb constructions

Further reading

light verb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“light verb”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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