verb

動詞

食べる、起こる、いるなど、動作や出来事、状態を表す語。

やさしい英語で： A word that describes an action, event, or state, such as eat, happen, or be.

• Find the verb in this sentence.
• Some verbs have irregular past forms.
• Which verb describes what the boy is doing?

よく使う表現： an irregular verb, verb tense, a main verb

行動

単なる考えや性質ではなく、実際に行うこととして捉えたもの。

やさしい英語で： Something understood as an action you perform, rather than just an idea or quality.

• For her, love is a verb: she shows it by helping.
• Treat kindness as a verb and do something useful today.
• He calls friendship a verb because it requires action.

類義語： action

よく使う表現： love as a verb, a verb of action

動詞化する

名詞などの語を、動作を表す動詞として使う。

やさしい英語で： To use a word, especially a noun, as a word describing an action.

• Writers sometimes verb a noun for fun.
• She verbed the word to make her sentence shorter.
• English speakers have been verbing nouns for centuries.

類義語： verbalize

よく使う表現： verb a noun, verb a word