id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7576 Verb - Wikipedia .html text/html 3257 459 70 In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood, and voice. Latin and the Romance languages inflect verbs for tense–aspect–mood (abbreviated 'TAM'), and they agree in person and number (but not in gender, as for example in Polish) with the subject. Japanese, like many languages with SOV word order, inflects verbs for tense-aspect-mood, as well as other categories such as negation, but shows absolutely no agreement with the subject it is a strictly dependent-marking language. In addition, verbs can be nonfinite, namely, not inflected for tense, and have various special forms such as infinitives, participles or gerunds.[1] Depending on the language, verbs may express grammatical tense, aspect, or modality. Most languages have a number of verbal nouns that describe the action of the verb. Other languages have attributive verb forms with tense and aspect. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7576.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7576.txt