Meaning of phrasal verb | Babel Free
Definitions
- A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.
- A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.
Equivalents
Čeština
frázové sloveso
Deutsch
mehrgliedriges Verb
Ελληνικά
περιφραστικό ρήμα
Español
locución verbal
Suomi
partikkeliverbi
Polski
czasownik frazowy
Русский
фра́зовый глаго́л
Svenska
partikelverb
Examples
“In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.”
“In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.”
“Thus, it would seem that as far as GAPPING is concerned, the whole expression put off is somehow treated as a single 'compound Verb'. But this is the very intuition which we encapsulated in analysis (125) (b), by giving the sequence [put off] the status of a single V constituent (i.e. by analysing it as a Phrasal Verb). Thus, facts about GAPPING lend yet further support to analysis (125).”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.