infinitive

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From Middle English infenitife (“without end, in perpetuity”), from Late Latin īnfīnītīvus (“unlimited, indefinite”), from Latin īnfīnītus (“unlimited, infinite”). By surface analysis, infinite + -ive.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: paskajore — a mood or mode of verbs
• Azerbaijani: məsdər — a mood or mode of verbs
• Czech: neurčitý způsob — a mood or mode of verbs
• Czech: neurčitek — a mood or mode of verbs
• Dutch: infinitief — a mood or mode of verbs
• Dutch: onbepaalde wijs — a mood or mode of verbs
• Esperanto: infinitivo — a mood or mode of verbs
• Galician: infinitivo — a mood or mode of verbs
• German: Infinitiv — a mood or mode of verbs
• Ancient Greek: ἀπαρέμφατος (aparémphatos) — a mood or mode of verbs
• Hebrew: שֵׁם פֹּעַל (shem pó‘al) — a mood or mode of verbs
• Hebrew: מָקוֹר (makór) — a mood or mode of verbs
• Icelandic: nafnháttur — a mood or mode of verbs
• Latin: infinitivus — a mood or mode of verbs
• Latin: modus infinitivus — a mood or mode of verbs
• Latin: modus perpetuus — a mood or mode of verbs
• Polish: tryb bezokolicznikowy — a mood or mode of verbs
• Serbo-Croatian: infinitiv — a mood or mode of verbs
• Swedish: infinitiv — a mood or mode of verbs
• Swedish: obestämmt sätt — a mood or mode of verbs
• Tagalog: pawatas — a mood or mode of verbs
• Tagalog: panaganong pawatas — a mood or mode of verbs
• Welsh: modd annherfynol — a mood or mode of verbs
• Welsh: annherfynol — a mood or mode of verbs
• Afrikaans: infinitief — uninflected verb form
• Albanian: paskajore — uninflected verb form
• Arabic: مَصْدَر (maṣdar) — uninflected verb form
• Armenian: անորոշ դերբայ (anoroš derbay) — uninflected verb form
• Asturian: infinitivu — uninflected verb form
• Belarusian: інфініты́ў (infinitýw) — uninflected verb form
• Belarusian: нявызна́чаная фо́рма (njavyznáčanaja fórma) — uninflected verb form
• Bulgarian: инфинити́в (infinitív) — uninflected verb form
• Bulgarian: неопределе́на фо́рма (neopredeléna fórma) — uninflected verb form
• Catalan: infinitiu — uninflected verb form
• Chinese Mandarin: 不定詞 /不定词 (bùdìngcí) — uninflected verb form
• Czech: infinitiv — uninflected verb form
• Czech: neurčitek — uninflected verb form
• Danish: infinitiv — uninflected verb form
• Danish: navnemåde — uninflected verb form
• Danish: navneform — uninflected verb form
• Esperanto: infinitivo — uninflected verb form
• Estonian: tegevusnimi — uninflected verb form
• Estonian: infinitiiv — uninflected verb form
• Faroese: navnháttur — uninflected verb form
• Finnish: infinitiivi — uninflected verb form
• French: infinitif — uninflected verb form
• Galician: infinitivo — uninflected verb form
• Georgian: ინფინიტივი (inpiniṭivi) — uninflected verb form
• German: Infinitiv — uninflected verb form
• Greek: απαρέμφατο (aparémfato) — uninflected verb form
• Ancient Greek: ἀπαρέμφατος (aparémphatos) — uninflected verb form
• Hebrew: שֵׁם פֹּעַל (shem-pó'al) — uninflected verb form
• Hungarian: főnévi igenév — uninflected verb form
• Icelandic: nafnháttur — uninflected verb form
• Ido: infinitivo — uninflected verb form
• Italian: infinito — uninflected verb form
• Japanese: 不定詞 (futeishi) — uninflected verb form
• Kazakh: инфинитив (infinitiv) — uninflected verb form
• Korean: 부정사 (bujeongsa) — uninflected verb form
• Latin: aparemphatum — uninflected verb form
• Latvian: nenoteiksme — uninflected verb form
• Lithuanian: bendratis — uninflected verb form
• Macedonian: и́нфинитив (ínfinitiv) — uninflected verb form
• Navajo: bee áhodoonííł saad — uninflected verb form
• Norman: înfinnitif — uninflected verb form
• Norwegian Bokmål: infinitiv — uninflected verb form
• Persian: مصدر (masdar) — uninflected verb form
• Polish: bezokolicznik — uninflected verb form
• Polish: infinitiwus — uninflected verb form
• Portuguese: infinitivo — uninflected verb form
• Portuguese: infinito — uninflected verb form
• Romanian: infinitiv — uninflected verb form
• Russian: неопределённая фо́рма (neopredeljónnaja fórma) — uninflected verb form
• Russian: инфинити́в (infinitív) — uninflected verb form
• Serbo-Croatian: инфинитив — uninflected verb form
• Serbo-Croatian: infinitiv — uninflected verb form
• Slovak: neurčitok — uninflected verb form
• Slovak: infinitív — uninflected verb form
• Slovene: nedoločnik — uninflected verb form
• Slovene: ínfinitiv — uninflected verb form
• Spanish: infinitivo — uninflected verb form
• Swahili: kitenzi jina — uninflected verb form
• Tagalog: pawatas — uninflected verb form
• Thai: รูปกริยากลาง — uninflected verb form
• Turkish: mastar — uninflected verb form
• Turkish: eylemlik — uninflected verb form
• Turkish: isim-fiil — uninflected verb form
• Ukrainian: інфініти́в (infinitýv) — uninflected verb form
• Ukrainian: дієйме́нник (dijejménnyk) — uninflected verb form
• Ukrainian: невизна́чена фо́рма (nevyznáčena fórma) — uninflected verb form
• Vietnamese: lối vô định — uninflected verb form
• Welsh: berf annherfynol — uninflected verb form
• Yiddish: אינפֿיניטיוו (infinitiv) — uninflected verb form