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(linguistics, grammar) A pro-form used to substitute for a verb or verb phrase.

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pro-verb

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Source Word

pro-verb

(linguistics, grammar) A pro-form used to substitute for a verb or verb phrase.

Japanese Meaning

動詞または動詞句の代わりに用いられる表現（プロ形式の一種）

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Rather than repeating the whole clause, she used a pro-verb to avoid redundancy.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

同じ節を繰り返す代わりに、彼女は冗長を避けるために動詞の代用表現を使った。

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(linguistics, grammar) A pro-form used to substitute for a verb or verb phrase.

“They herd cattle, and raise corn, just as we used to do”; i.e., to herd cattle and raise corn. Do is sometimes thus used as a sort of pro-verb to represent an active verb or a phrase.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

pro-verbs

（ plural ）

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