phrasal verb

English

phrasal verb (plural phrasal verbs)

(linguistics) 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.
In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.
(linguistics, more loosely) A phrase, consisting of a verb and either or both of a preposition or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 98:
  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).

idiomatic phrase

Catalan: locució verbal f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 短語動詞／短语动词 (duǎnyǔ dòngcí)
Crimean Tatar: mürekkep fiil
Czech: frázové sloveso n
Finnish: partikkeliverbi
French: verbe à particule (fr) m, phrasal verb (fr) m
German: mehrgliedriges Verb n
Greek: περιφραστικό ρήμα n (perifrastikó ríma)
Hungarian: vonzatos ige (hu), többszavas ige, többrészes ige, összetett ige, igekötős ige, igei szókapcsolat, határozós vagy elöljárós ige, frazális ige
Italian: verbo frasale (it), verbo seguito da preposizione o avverbio
Japanese: 句動詞 (ja) (kudōshi), 不変化詞動詞 (fuhenkashi dōshi)
Khmer: កិរិយាកន្សោម (ke’ri’yaa kɑnsaom)
Mongolian: хэлц үйл үг (xelc üjl üg)
Occitan: locucion verbala
Portuguese: locução verbal f, verbo frasal m
Romanian: locuțiune verbală f
Russian: фра́зовый глаго́л (ru) m (frázovyj glagól)
Spanish: locución verbal (es) f
Swedish: partikelverb (sv) n