finite verb

Finite verbs agreed with their subject in person and number.

Finite verbs are marked for subject person, number, and gender.

They can freely substitute for finite verbs conjugated in the past sense.

His thick furry voice almost precluded the use of finite verbs.

In other languages however, finite verbs are the locus of much grammatical information.

Finite verbs play a particularly important role in syntactic analyses of sentence structure.

For example, given the following two sentences (which have finite verbs):

It's used with finite verbs to give the sense of continuousness:

Here, finite verbs will agree in both cases with the superficially plural pronoun.

However, some languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, allow finite verbs to be used attributively.

Traditional grammarians have suggested that the construction appeared because people frequently place adverbs before finite verbs.

Finite verbs take subjective pronominal referentials and are predicative words.

Due to the relatively poor system of inflectional morphology in English, the central role that finite verbs play is often not so evident.

Finite verbs can appear in dependent clauses as well as independent ones:

Depending on the language, finite verbs can inflect for the following grammatical categories:

The definite, but not indefinite, copula can also act as a participle following some finite verbs.

The verb distinguishes three forms functioning as finite verbs, known as "conjugations".

Conjugation I is the only one that has special endings characteristic of finite verbs as such, as shown below.

Only finite verbs take personal conjugations, while various non-finite forms take different suffices.

Finite verbs agree in person and number with their nuclear arguments; agreement is through both prefixes and suffixes.

The Portuguese perfect form of the personal infinitive corresponds to one of several possible Spanish finite verbs.

Japanese allows finite verbs to be attributive, and the following characteristics of Japanese are common among verb-final languages.

Multiple infinitive verbs used with finite verbs are separated:

Norwegian finite verbs are inflected or conjugated according to mood: indicative/imperative/subjunctive.

However, as noted above, most finite verbs are formed periphrastically, using an auxiliary verb in conjunction with the verbal noun.