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<span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-listBullet mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-listBullet"></span> <span 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="صيغة المصدر – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="صيغة المصدر" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitivo_simple" title="Infinitivo simple – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Infinitivo simple" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitivu" title="Infinitivu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Infinitivu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C9%99sd%C9%99r" title="Məsdər – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Məsdər" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="مصدر – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="مصدر" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%BD%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%9E" title="Інфінітыў – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Інфінітыў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2" title="Инфинитив – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Инфинитив" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiu" title="Infinitiu – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Infinitiu" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2" title="Инфинитив – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Инфинитив" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiv" title="Infinitiv – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Infinitiv" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berfenw" title="Berfenw – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Berfenw" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiv" title="Infinitiv – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Infinitiv" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiv" title="Infinitiv – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Infinitiv" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiiv" title="Infinitiiv – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Infinitiiv" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AD%CE%BC%CF%86%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF" title="Απαρέμφατο – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Απαρέμφατο" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitivo" title="Infinitivo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Infinitivo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitivo" title="Infinitivo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Infinitivo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitivu" title="Infinitivu – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Infinitivu" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Estremeñu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1" title="مصدر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مصدر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitif" title="Infinitif – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Infinitif" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitivo" title="Infinitivo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Infinitivo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B6%80%EC%A0%95%EC%82%AC" title="부정사 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="부정사" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%B6%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%B8%D5%B7_%D5%A4%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%B5" title="Անորոշ դերբայ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Անորոշ դերբայ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiv" title="Infinitiv – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Infinitiv" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitivo" title="Infinitivo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Infinitivo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_infinitif" title="Modus infinitif – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Modus infinitif" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafnh%C3%A1ttur" title="Nafnháttur – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Nafnháttur" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinito_(modo)" title="Infinito (modo) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Infinito (modo)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%9C" title="שם הפועל – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שם הפועל" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2" title="Инфинитив – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Инфинитив" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitivus_(grammatica)" title="Infinitivus (grammatica) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Infinitivus (grammatica)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenoteiksme" title="Nenoteiksme – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Nenoteiksme" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendratis" title="Bendratis – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Bendratis" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitief" title="Infinitief – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Infinitief" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C5%91n%C3%A9vi_igen%C3%A9v" title="Főnévi igenév – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Főnévi igenév" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2" title="Инфинитив – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Инфинитив" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filaza_tsy_mitanisa" title="Filaza tsy mitanisa – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Filaza tsy mitanisa" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitief" title="Infinitief – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Infinitief" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8D%E5%AE%9A%E8%A9%9E" title="不定詞 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="不定詞" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiv" title="Infinitiv – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Infinitiv" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiv" title="Infinitiv – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Infinitiv" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitiu" title="Infinitiu – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" 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class="mw-redirect" title="Non-finite verb">non-finite verbs</a>. As with many linguistic concepts, there is not a single definition applicable to all languages. The name is derived from <a href="/wiki/Late_Latin" title="Late Latin">Late Latin</a> <i>[modus] infinitivus</i>, a derivative of <i>infinitus</i> meaning "unlimited". </p><p>In traditional descriptions of <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, the infinitive is the basic <a href="/wiki/Dictionary_form" class="mw-redirect" title="Dictionary form">dictionary form</a> of a verb when used non-finitely, with or without the <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_particle" title="Grammatical particle">particle</a> <b>to</b>. Thus <b>to go</b> is an infinitive, as is <i>go</i> in a sentence like "I must go there" (but not in "I go there", where it is a <a href="/wiki/Finite_verb" title="Finite verb">finite verb</a>). The form without <i>to</i> is called the <b>bare infinitive</b>, and the form with <i>to</i> is called the <b>full infinitive</b> or <b>to-infinitive</b>. </p><p>In many other languages the infinitive is a distinct single word, often with a characteristic <a href="/wiki/Inflection" title="Inflection">inflective</a> ending, like <i>cantar</i> ("[to] sing") in <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>, <i>morir</i> ("[to] die") in <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>, <i>manger</i> ("[to] eat") in <a href="/wiki/French_grammar" title="French grammar">French</a>, <i>portare</i> ("[to] carry") in <a href="/wiki/Latin_conjugation" title="Latin conjugation">Latin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Italian_conjugation" title="Italian conjugation">Italian</a>, <i>lieben</i> ("[to] love") in <a href="/wiki/German_grammar" title="German grammar">German</a>, <i><span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">читать</span></span></i> (<i>chitat'</i>, "[to] read") in <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>, etc. However, some languages have no infinitive forms. Many <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous languages of the Americas">Native American languages</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Asia" title="Languages of Asia">Asian languages</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>, and some languages in <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Africa" title="Languages of Africa">Africa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Australian_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous Australian languages">Australia</a> do not have direct equivalents to infinitives or <a href="/wiki/Verbal_noun" title="Verbal noun">verbal nouns</a>. Instead, they use <a href="/wiki/Balancing_and_deranking" title="Balancing and deranking">finite verb forms in ordinary clauses</a> or various special constructions. </p><p>Being a verb, an infinitive may take <a href="/wiki/Object_(grammar)" title="Object (grammar)">objects</a> and other complements and modifiers to form a <a href="/wiki/Verb_phrase" title="Verb phrase">verb phrase</a> (called an <b>infinitive phrase</b>). Like other non-finite verb forms (like <a href="/wiki/Participle" title="Participle">participles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Converb" title="Converb">converbs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gerund" title="Gerund">gerunds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gerundive" title="Gerundive">gerundives</a>), infinitives do not generally have an expressed <a href="/wiki/Subject_(grammar)" title="Subject (grammar)">subject</a>; thus an infinitive verb phrase also constitutes a complete <a href="/wiki/Non-finite_clause" title="Non-finite clause">non-finite clause</a>, called an <b>infinitive (infinitival) clause</b>. Such phrases or clauses may play a variety of roles within sentences, often being <a href="/wiki/Noun" title="Noun">nouns</a> (for example being the subject of a sentence or being a complement of another verb), and sometimes being <a href="/wiki/Adverb" title="Adverb">adverbs</a> or other types of modifier. Many verb forms known as infinitives differ from <a href="/wiki/Gerund" title="Gerund">gerunds</a> (verbal nouns) in that they do not inflect for <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_case" title="Grammatical case">case</a> or occur in <a href="/wiki/Adpositional_phrase" title="Adpositional phrase">adpositional phrases</a>. Instead, infinitives often originate in earlier inflectional forms of verbal nouns.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike finite verbs, infinitives are not usually inflected for <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_tense" title="Grammatical tense">tense</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_person" title="Grammatical person">person</a>, etc. either, although some degree of inflection sometimes occurs; for example Latin has distinct <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_voice" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammatical voice">active and passive</a> infinitives. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phrases_and_clauses">Phrases and clauses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Phrases and clauses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An <i>infinitive phrase</i> is a <a href="/wiki/Verb_phrase" title="Verb phrase">verb phrase</a> constructed with the verb in infinitive form. This consists of the verb together with its <a href="/wiki/Object_(grammar)" title="Object (grammar)">objects</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Complement_(grammar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Complement (grammar)">complements</a> and <a href="/wiki/Modifier_(grammar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Modifier (grammar)">modifiers</a>. Some examples of infinitive phrases in English are given below – these may be based on either the full infinitive (introduced by the <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_particle" title="Grammatical particle">particle</a> <i>to</i>) or the bare infinitive (without the particle <i>to</i>). </p> <ul><li>(to) sleep</li> <li>(to) write ten letters</li> <li>(to) go to the store for a pound of sugar</li></ul> <p>Infinitive phrases often have an implied <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_subject" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammatical subject">grammatical subject</a> making them effectively <a href="/wiki/Clause" title="Clause">clauses</a> rather than phrases. Such <i>infinitive clauses</i> or <i>infinitival clauses</i>, are one of several kinds of <a href="/wiki/Non-finite_clause" title="Non-finite clause">non-finite clause</a>. They can play various grammatical roles like a <a href="/wiki/Constituent_(linguistics)" title="Constituent (linguistics)">constituent</a> of a larger clause or sentence; for example it may form a <a href="/wiki/Noun_phrase" title="Noun phrase">noun phrase</a> or <a href="/wiki/Adverb" title="Adverb">adverb</a>. Infinitival clauses may be embedded within each other in complex ways, like in the sentence: </p> <ul><li>I want to tell you that John Welborn is going to get married to Blair.</li></ul> <p>Here the infinitival clause <i>to get married</i> is contained within the finite <a href="/wiki/Dependent_clause" title="Dependent clause">dependent clause</a> <i>that John Welborn is going to get married to Blair</i>; this in turn is contained within another infinitival clause, which is contained in the finite <a href="/wiki/Independent_clause" title="Independent clause">independent clause</a> (the whole sentence). </p><p>The grammatical structure of an infinitival clause may differ from that of a corresponding finite clause. For example, in <a href="/wiki/German_grammar" title="German grammar">German</a>, the infinitive form of the verb usually goes to the end of its clause, whereas a finite verb (in an independent clause) typically comes in <a href="/wiki/V2_word_order" title="V2 word order">second position</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Clauses_with_implicit_subject_in_the_objective_case">Clauses with implicit subject in the objective case</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Clauses with implicit subject in the objective case"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following certain verbs or prepositions, infinitives commonly <i>do</i> have an implicit subject, e.g., </p> <ul><li>I want <b>to eat them as dinner</b>.</li> <li>For <b>him to fail now</b> would be a disappointment.</li></ul> <p>As these examples illustrate, the implicit subject of the infinitive occurs in the <a href="/wiki/Oblique_case" title="Oblique case">objective</a> case (them, him) in contrast to the <a href="/wiki/Nominative_case" title="Nominative case">nominative case</a> that occurs with a finite verb, e.g., "They ate their dinner." Such <a href="/wiki/Accusative_and_infinitive" title="Accusative and infinitive">accusative and infinitive</a> constructions are present in <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>, as well as many modern languages. The atypical case regarding the implicit subject of an infinitive is an example of <a href="/wiki/Exceptional_case-marking" title="Exceptional case-marking">exceptional case-marking</a>. As shown in the above examples, the object of the transitive verb "want" and the preposition "for" allude to their respective pronouns' subjective role within the clauses. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marking_for_tense,_aspect_and_voice"><span id="Marking_for_tense.2C_aspect_and_voice"></span>Marking for tense, aspect and voice <span class="anchor" id="Perfect"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marking for tense, aspect and voice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In some languages, infinitives may be marked for <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_category" title="Grammatical category">grammatical categories</a> like <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_voice" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammatical voice">voice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_aspect" title="Grammatical aspect">aspect</a>, and to some extent <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_tense" title="Grammatical tense">tense</a>. This may be done by <a href="/wiki/Inflection" title="Inflection">inflection</a>, as with the Latin perfect and passive infinitives, or by <a href="/wiki/Periphrasis" title="Periphrasis">periphrasis</a> (with the use of <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_verb" title="Auxiliary verb">auxiliary verbs</a>), as with the Latin future infinitives or the English perfect and progressive infinitives. </p><p>Latin has present, perfect and future infinitives, with active and <a href="/wiki/Passive_voice" title="Passive voice">passive</a> forms of each. For details see <a href="/wiki/Latin_conjugation#Infinitives" title="Latin conjugation">Latin conjugation § Infinitives</a>. </p><p>English has infinitive constructions that are marked (periphrastically) for aspect: <a href="/wiki/Perfect_(grammar)" title="Perfect (grammar)">perfect</a>, <a href="/wiki/Progressive_aspect" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive aspect">progressive</a> (continuous), or a combination of the two (<a href="/wiki/Perfect_progressive" class="mw-redirect" title="Perfect progressive">perfect progressive</a>). These can also be marked for <a href="/wiki/English_passive_voice" title="English passive voice">passive voice</a> (as can the plain infinitive): </p> <ul><li><i>(to) eat</i> (plain infinitive, active)</li> <li><i>(to) be eaten</i> (passive)</li> <li><i>(to) have eaten</i> (perfect active)</li> <li><i>(to) have been eaten</i> (perfect passive)</li> <li><i>(to) be eating</i> (progressive active)</li> <li><i>(to) be being eaten</i> (progressive passive)</li> <li><i>(to) have been eating</i> (perfect progressive active)</li> <li><i>(to) have been being eaten</i> (perfect progressive passive, not often used)</li></ul> <p>Further constructions can be made with other auxiliary-like expressions, like <i>(to) be <a href="/wiki/Going_to" class="mw-redirect" title="Going to">going to</a> eat</i> or <i>(to) be <a href="/wiki/About_to" class="mw-redirect" title="About to">about to</a> eat</i>, which have future meaning. For more examples of the above types of construction, see <a href="/wiki/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#Perfect_and_progressive_non-finite_constructions" title="Uses of English verb forms">Uses of English verb forms § Perfect and progressive non-finite constructions</a>. </p><p>Perfect infinitives are also found in other European languages that have <a href="/wiki/Perfect_(grammar)" title="Perfect (grammar)">perfect</a> forms with auxiliaries similarly to English. For example, <i>avoir mangé</i> means "(to) have eaten" in French. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/English_verbs" title="English verbs">English verbs</a></div> <p>The term "infinitive" is traditionally applied to the unmarked form of the verb (the <a href="/wiki/English_verbs#Base_form" title="English verbs">"plain form"</a>) when it forms a <a href="/wiki/Non-finite_verb" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-finite verb">non-finite verb</a>, whether or not introduced by the <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_particle" title="Grammatical particle">particle</a> <i>to</i>. Hence <i>sit</i> and <i>to sit</i>, as used in the following sentences, would each be considered an infinitive: </p> <ul><li>I can <b>sit</b> here all day.</li> <li>I want <b>to sit</b> on the other chair.</li></ul> <p>The form without <i>to</i> is called the <i>bare infinitive</i>; the form introduced by <i>to</i> is called the <i>full infinitive</i> or <i>to-infinitive</i>. </p><p>The other non-finite verb forms in English are the <a href="/wiki/Gerund" title="Gerund">gerund</a> or present <a href="/wiki/Participle" title="Participle">participle</a> (the <i>-ing</i> form), and the <a href="/wiki/Past_participle" class="mw-redirect" title="Past participle">past participle</a> – these are not considered infinitives. Moreover, the unmarked form of the verb is not considered an infinitive when it forms a <a href="/wiki/Finite_verb" title="Finite verb">finite verb</a>: like a present <a href="/wiki/Indicative_mood" class="mw-redirect" title="Indicative mood">indicative</a> ("I <i>sit</i> every day"), <a href="/wiki/English_subjunctive" title="English subjunctive">subjunctive</a> ("I suggest that he <i>sit</i>"), or <a href="/wiki/Imperative_mood" title="Imperative mood">imperative</a> ("<i>Sit</i> down!"). (For some <a href="/wiki/English_irregular_verbs" title="English irregular verbs">irregular verbs</a> the form of the infinitive coincides additionally with that of the past tense and/or past participle, like in the case of <i>put</i>.) </p><p>Certain <a href="/wiki/Auxiliary_verb" title="Auxiliary verb">auxiliary verbs</a> are <a href="/wiki/English_modal_verbs" class="mw-redirect" title="English modal verbs">modal verbs</a> (such as <i>can</i>, <i>must</i>, etc., which <a href="/wiki/Defective_verb" title="Defective verb">defective</a> verbs lacking an infinitive form or any truly inflected non-finite form) are complemented by a bare infinitive verb. <a href="/wiki/Periphrasis" title="Periphrasis">periphrastic</a> items, such as (1) <a href="/wiki/Had_better" class="mw-redirect" title="Had better">had better</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ought_to" class="mw-redirect" title="Ought to">ought to</a> as substitutes for <i>should,</i> (2) <a href="/wiki/Used_to" class="mw-redirect" title="Used to">used to</a> as a substitute for <a href="/wiki/Do-support" title="Do-support">did</a>, and (3) <i>(to) be able to</i> for <i>can</i>, are similarly complemented by a bare infinitive verb. Infinitives are <a href="/wiki/English_grammar#Negation" title="English grammar">negated</a> by simply preceding them with <i>not</i>. Of course the verb <i>do</i>, when complementing a finite verb, occurs as an infinitive. However, the auxiliary verbs <i>have</i> (used to form the <a href="/wiki/Perfect_(grammar)" title="Perfect (grammar)">perfect</a>) and <i>be</i> (used to form the <a href="/wiki/Passive_voice" title="Passive voice">passive voice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Continuous_aspect" class="mw-redirect" title="Continuous aspect">continuous aspect</a>) often occur as an infinitive: "I should <b>have</b> finished by now"; "It's thought <b>to have</b> been a burial site"; "Let him <b>be</b> released"; "I hope <b>to be</b> working tomorrow." </p><p><a href="/wiki/Rodney_Huddleston" title="Rodney Huddleston">Huddleston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Pullum" class="mw-redirect" title="Geoffrey Pullum">Pullum</a>'s <i>Cambridge Grammar of the English Language</i> (2002) does not use the notion of the "infinitive" ("there is no form in the English verb paradigm called 'the infinitive'"), only that of the <i>infinitival <a href="/wiki/Clause_(grammar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clause (grammar)">clause</a></i>, noting that English uses the same form of the verb, the <i>plain form</i>, in infinitival clauses that it uses in imperative and present-subjunctive clauses.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A matter of controversy among <a href="/wiki/Prescriptive_grammar" class="mw-redirect" title="Prescriptive grammar">prescriptive grammarians</a> and style writers has been the appropriateness of separating the two words of the <i>to</i>-infinitive (as in "I expect <i>to</i> happily <i>sit</i> here"). For details of this, see <a href="/wiki/Split_infinitive" title="Split infinitive">split infinitive</a>. Opposing <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguistic</a> theories typically do not consider the <i>to</i>-infinitive a distinct <a href="/wiki/Constituent_(linguistics)" title="Constituent (linguistics)">constituent</a>, instead regarding the scope of the particle <i>to</i> as an entire verb phrase; thus, <i>to buy a car</i> is parsed like <i>to [buy [a car]]</i>, not like <i>[to buy] [a car]</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Uses_of_the_infinitive">Uses of the infinitive</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Uses of the infinitive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The bare infinitive and the <i>to</i>-infinitive have a variety of uses in English. The two forms are mostly in <a href="/wiki/Complementary_distribution" title="Complementary distribution">complementary distribution</a> – certain contexts call for one, and certain contexts for the other; they are not normally interchangeable, except in occasional instances like after the verb <i>help</i>, where either can be used. </p><p>The main uses of infinitives (or infinitive phrases) are varied: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Complement_(grammar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Complement (grammar)">Complementing</a> the <a href="/wiki/Do-support" title="Do-support">dummy auxiliary</a> <i>do</i>, e.g., "I do <b>like</b> coffee but I don't <b>care</b> for tea."</li> <li>In a bare infinitive form as <a href="/wiki/Dative_case" title="Dative case">an object complement</a>, i.e. –</li></ul> <dl><dd><ol><li>to complement a <a href="/wiki/English_modal_verbs" class="mw-redirect" title="English modal verbs">modal auxiliary verb</a>, "I can't <b>breathe</b>" or "I can <b>see</b> clearly now."</li> <li>to complement a <a href="/wiki/Direct_object" class="mw-redirect" title="Direct object">direct object</a> that –</li></ol> <dl><dd><dl><dd>a. follows a verb of perception such as <i>see</i>, <i>watch</i> or <i>hear</i>, e.g. "We saw it <b>fall</b>" or "I can hear the birds <b>sing</b>."</dd> <dd>b. follows a verb of causation such as <i>make</i>, <i>bid</i>, or <i>have</i>, e.g. "Make it <b>stop</b> or "We'll have them <b>call</b> you."</dd> <dd>c. follows a verb of permission, e.g. "Let me <b>ask</b> you something."</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>As a bare infinitive that comprises a phrase rendered in the vestigial <a href="/wiki/Permissive_mood" title="Permissive mood">permissive mood</a>, e.g. "Let it <b>be</b>."</li> <li>As a bare infinitive that comprises a phrase rendered as a <a href="/wiki/Hortative" title="Hortative">hortative</a> utterance, e.g. "Let's <b>leave</b>."</li> <li>As complements of certain <a href="/wiki/Fossil_word" title="Fossil word">fossil phrases</a> such as <i><a href="/wiki/Had_better" class="mw-redirect" title="Had better">had better</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Would_rather" class="mw-redirect" title="Would rather">would rather</a></i> (with bare infinitive), <i>in order to</i>, <i>as if to</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Am_to" class="mw-redirect" title="Am to">am to</a>/is to/are to</i>.</li> <li>As a noun phrase, expressing its action or state in an abstract, general way that functions, e.g. as –</li></ul> <dl><dd><ol><li>the <a href="/wiki/Subject_(grammar)" title="Subject (grammar)">subject</a> of a clause: "<b>To err</b> is human" or "<b>To know</b> me is to love me."</li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Object_(grammar)" title="Object (grammar)">object</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Predicative_expression" title="Predicative expression">predicative expression</a>: "What you should do is <b>make</b> a list" or "To know me is <b>to love me</b>".</li></ol></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adverb" title="Adverb">Adverbially</a>:</li></ul> <dl><dd><ol><li>to express purpose, intent or result, as the <i>to</i>-infinitive can have the meaning of <i>in order to</i>, e.g. "I closed the door [in order] <b>to block</b> out any noise."</li> <li>to characterize and adjective, e.g., "keen <b>to get</b> on" or "nice <b>to listen</b> to".</li></ol></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adjective" title="Adjective">Adjectivally</a>, characterizing a noun, e.g. "a request <b>to see</b> someone" or "the method <b>to use</b>."</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Ellipsis_(linguistics)" title="Ellipsis (linguistics)">elliptical</a> questions (direct or indirect): "I don't know where <b>to go</b>."</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Sentence_clause_structure#Incomplete_sentences" title="Sentence clause structure">sentence fragment</a> that constitutes an <a href="/wiki/Interrogative" title="Interrogative">interrogative</a> –</li></ul> <dl><dd><ol><li>the bare infinitive is used after <i>why</i>, e.g., "Why <b>reveal</b> it?"</li> <li>the <i>to-</i> infinitive is used:</li></ol> <dl><dd><dl><dd>a. after <i>whom</i>, e.g., "Whom to <b>believe</b>?"</dd> <dd>b. after <i>what</i>, e.g., "What to <b>do</b>?"</dd> <dd>c. after <i>when</i>, e.g., "When to <b>surrender</b>?"</dd> <dd>d. after <i>where</i>, e.g., "Where to <b>go</b>?"</dd> <dd>e. after <i>how</i>, e.g., "How to <b>know</b>?"</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>The infinitive typically is the <a href="/wiki/Dictionary_form" class="mw-redirect" title="Dictionary form">dictionary form</a> or citation form of a verb. The form listed in a dictionary entry is the bare infinitive, but the <i>to</i>-infinitive is often used when defining other verbs, e.g. </p> <dl><dd><b><big>amble</big> (verb)</b></dd> <dd><b>ambled; ambling</b></dd> <dd><i>intransitive verb</i> <ol><li>to walk slowly</li> <li>to stroll without a particular aim</li></ol></dd></dl> <p>For further detail and examples of the uses of infinitives in English, see <a href="/wiki/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#Bare_infinitive" title="Uses of English verb forms">Bare infinitive</a> and <a href="/wiki/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#To-infinitive" title="Uses of English verb forms"><i>To</i>-infinitive</a> in the article on uses of English verb forms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_Germanic_languages">Other Germanic languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other Germanic languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The original <a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" title="Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> <a href="/wiki/Suffix#Inflectional_suffixes" title="Suffix">ending</a> of the infinitive was <i>-an</i>, with verbs derived from other words ending in <i>-jan</i> or <i>-janan</i>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> it is <i>-en</i> ("sagen"), with <i>-eln</i> or <i>-ern</i> endings on a few words based on -l or -r roots ("segeln", "ändern"). The use of <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zu#Particle" class="extiw" title="wikt:zu">zu</a></i> with infinitives is similar to English <i>to</i>, but is less frequent than in English. German infinitives can form nouns, often expressing abstractions of the action, in which case they are of neuter gender: <i>das Essen</i> means <i>the eating</i>, but also <i>the food</i>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> infinitives also end in <i>-en</i> (<i>zeggen</i> — <i>to say</i>), sometimes used with <i>te</i> similar to English <i>to</i>, e.g., "Het is niet moeilijk te begrijpen" → "It is not hard to understand." The few verbs with stems ending in <i>-a</i> have infinitives in -n (<i>gaan</i> — <i>to go</i>, <i>slaan</i> — <i>to hit</i>). <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans" title="Afrikaans">Afrikaans</a> has lost the distinction between the infinitive and present forms of verbs, with the exception of the verbs "wees" (to be), which admits the present form "is", and the verb "hê" (to have), whose present form is "het". </p><p>In North Germanic languages the final <i>-n</i> was lost from the infinitive as early as 500–540 AD, reducing the suffix to <i>-a</i>. Later it has been further reduced to <i>-e</i> in Danish and some Norwegian dialects (including the written majority language <a href="/wiki/Bokm%C3%A5l" title="Bokmål">bokmål</a>). In the majority of Eastern Norwegian dialects and a few bordering Western Swedish dialects the reduction to <i>-e</i> was only partial, leaving some infinitives in <i>-a</i> and others in <i>-e</i> (å laga vs. å kaste). In northern parts of Norway the infinitive suffix is completely lost (å lag’ vs. å kast’) or only the <i>-a</i> is kept (å laga vs. å kast’). The infinitives of these languages are inflected for passive voice through the addition of <i>-s</i> or <i>-st</i> to the active form. This suffix appeared in Old Norse as a contraction of <i>mik</i> (“me”, forming <i>-mk</i>) or <i>sik</i> (reflexive pronoun, forming <i>-sk</i>) and originally expressed reflexive actions: (hann) <i>kallar</i> (“[he] calls”) + <i>-sik</i> (“himself”) > (hann) <i>kallask</i> (“[he] calls himself”). The suffixes <i>-mk</i> and <i>-sk</i> later merged into <i>-s</i>, which evolved to <i>-st</i> in the western dialects. The loss or reduction of <i>-a</i> in the active voice in Norwegian did not occur in the passive forms (<i>-ast</i>, <i>-as</i>), except for some dialects that have <i>-es</i>. The other North Germanic languages have the same vowel in both forms. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Latin_and_Romance_languages">Latin and Romance languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Latin and Romance languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The formation of the infinitive in the <a href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance languages</a> reflects that in their ancestor, <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>, almost all verbs had an infinitive ending with <i>-re</i> (preceded by one of various thematic vowels). For example, in <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> infinitives end in <i>-are</i>, <i>-ere</i>, <i>-rre</i> (rare), or <i>-ire</i> (which is still identical to the Latin forms), and in <i>-arsi</i>, <i>-ersi</i>, <i>-rsi</i>, <i>-irsi</i> for the reflexive forms. In <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>, infinitives end in <i>-ar</i>, <i>-er</i>, or <i>-ir</i> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> also has reflexive forms in <i>-arse</i>, <i>-erse</i>, <i>-irse</i>), while similarly in <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> they typically end in <i>-re</i>, <i>-er</i>, <i>oir</i>, and <i>-ir</i>. In <a href="/wiki/Romanian_language" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a>, both short and long-form infinitives exist; the so-called "long infinitives" end in <i>-are, -ere, -ire</i> and in modern speech are used exclusively as verbal nouns, while there are a few verbs that cannot be converted into the <a href="/wiki/Noun" title="Noun">nominal</a> long infinitive.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "short infinitives" used in verbal contexts (e.g., after an auxiliary verb) have the endings <i>-a</i>,<i>-ea</i>, <i>-e</i>, and <i>-i</i> (basically removing the ending in "-re"). In Romanian, the infinitive is usually replaced by a clause containing the conjunction <i>să</i> plus the subjunctive mood. The only verb that is modal in common modern Romanian is the verb <i>a putea</i>, to be able to. However, in popular speech the infinitive after <i>a putea</i> is also increasingly replaced by the subjunctive. </p><p>In all Romance languages, infinitives can also form nouns. </p><p>Latin infinitives challenged several of the generalizations about infinitives. They did inflect for <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_voice" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammatical voice">voice</a> (<i>amare</i>, "to love", <i>amari</i>, to be loved) and for tense (<i>amare</i>, "to love", <i>amavisse</i>, "to have loved"), and allowed for an overt expression of the subject (<i>video Socratem currere</i>, "I see Socrates running"). See <a href="/wiki/Latin_conjugation#Infinitives" title="Latin conjugation">Latin conjugation § Infinitives</a>. </p><p>Romance languages inherited from Latin the possibility of an overt expression of the subject (as in Italian <i>vedo Socrate correre</i>). Moreover, the "<b>inflected infinitive</b>" (or "personal infinitive") found in Portuguese and <a href="/wiki/Galician_language" title="Galician language">Galician</a> inflects for person and number.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These, alongside Sardinian,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> are the only <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European languages</a> that allow infinitives to take person and number endings. This helps to make infinitive clauses very common in these languages; for example, the English finite clause <i>in order that you/she/we have...</i> would be translated to Portuguese like <i>para ter<b>es</b>/ela ter/ter<b>mos</b>...</i> (Portuguese is a <a href="/wiki/Null-subject_language" title="Null-subject language">null-subject language</a>). The Portuguese personal infinitive has no proper tenses, only aspects (imperfect and perfect), but tenses can be expressed using <a href="/wiki/Periphrasis" title="Periphrasis">periphrastic</a> structures. For instance, <i>"even though you sing/have sung/are going to sing"</i> could be translated to <i>"apesar de cantares/teres cantado/ires cantar"</i>. </p><p>Other Romance languages (including Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, and some Italian dialects) allow uninflected infinitives to combine with overt nominative subjects. For example, Spanish <i>al abrir <b>yo</b> los ojos</i> ("when I opened my eyes") or <i>sin <b>yo</b> saberlo</i> ("without my knowing about it").<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hellenic_languages">Hellenic languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Hellenic languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ancient_Greek">Ancient Greek</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Ancient Greek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Infinitive_(Ancient_Greek)" title="Infinitive (Ancient Greek)">Infinitive (Ancient Greek)</a></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> the infinitive has four tenses (present, future, aorist, perfect) and three voices (active, middle, passive). Present and perfect have the same infinitive for both middle and passive, while future and aorist have separate middle and passive forms. </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>tense</th> <th>active</th> <th>middle</th> <th>passive </th></tr> <tr> <th>present </th> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδεύειν</span></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδεύεσθαι</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>future </th> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδεύσειν</span></span></td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδεύσεσθαι</span></span></td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδευθήσεσθαι</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>aorist </th> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδεῦσαι</span></span></td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδεύσᾰσθαι</span></span></td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδευθῆναι</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th>perfect </th> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">πεπαιδευκέναι</span></span> </td> <td colspan="2"><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">πεπαιδεῦσθαι</span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Thematic_vowel" title="Thematic vowel">Thematic verbs</a> form present active infinitives by adding to the stem the thematic vowel <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">-ε-</span></span> and the infinitive ending <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">-εν</span></span>, and contracts to <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">-ειν</span></span>, e.g., <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδεύ-ειν</span></span>. Athematic verbs, and perfect actives and aorist passives, add the suffix <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">-ναι</span></span> instead, e.g., <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">διδό-ναι</span></span>. In the middle and passive, the present middle infinitive ending is <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">-σθαι</span></span>, e.g., <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">δίδο-σθαι</span></span> and most tenses of thematic verbs add an additional <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">-ε-</span></span> between the ending and the stem, e.g., <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">παιδεύ-ε-σθαι</span></span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_Greek">Modern Greek</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Modern Greek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The infinitive <i>per se</i> does not exist in Modern Greek. To see this, consider the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">ancient Greek</a> <i>ἐθέλω γράφειν</i> “I want to write”. In <a href="/wiki/Modern_Greek" title="Modern Greek">modern Greek</a> this becomes <i>θέλω <u>να</u> γράψω</i> “I want <u>that</u> I write”. In modern Greek, the infinitive has thus changed form and function and is used mainly in the formation of periphrastic tense forms and not with an article or alone. Instead of the Ancient Greek infinitive system <i>γράφειν, γράψειν, γράψαι, γεγραφέναι</i>, Modern Greek uses only the form <i>γράψει</i>, a development of the ancient Greek aorist infinitive <i>γράψαι</i>. This form is also invariable. The modern Greek infinitive has only two forms according to voice: for example, <i>γράψει</i> for the active voice and <i>γραφ(τ)εί</i> for the passive voice (coming from the ancient passive aorist infinitive <i>γραφῆναι</i>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Balto-Slavic_languages">Balto-Slavic languages</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Balto-Slavic languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The infinitive in <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> usually ends in <i>-t’</i> (ть) preceded by a <a href="/wiki/Thematic_vowel" title="Thematic vowel">thematic vowel</a>, or <i>-ti</i> (ти), if not preceded by one; some verbs have a stem ending in a consonant and change the <i>t</i> to <i>č’</i>, like <i>*mogt’ → moč’</i> (*могть → мочь) "can". Some other <a href="/wiki/Balto-Slavic_languages" title="Balto-Slavic languages">Balto-Slavic languages</a> have the infinitive typically ending in, for example, <i>-ć</i> (sometimes <i>-c</i>) in <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>, <i>-ť</i> in <a href="/wiki/Slovak_language" title="Slovak language">Slovak</a>, <i>-t</i> (formerly <i>-ti</i>) in <a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latvian_language" title="Latvian language">Latvian</a> (with a handful ending in -s on the latter), <i>-ty</i> (-ти) in <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>, -ць (<i>-ts'</i>) in <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_language" title="Belarusian language">Belarusian</a>. Lithuanian infinitives end in -<i>ti</i>, <a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian" title="Serbo-Croatian">Serbo-Croatian</a> in -<i>ti</i> or -<i>ći,</i> and <a href="/wiki/Slovenian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovenian language">Slovenian</a> in -<i>ti</i> or -<i>či.</i> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Serbian_language" title="Serbian language">Serbian</a> officially retains infinitives -<i>ti</i> or -<i>ći</i>, but is more flexible than the other Slavic languages in breaking the infinitive through a clause. The infinitive nevertheless remains the dictionary form. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_language" title="Macedonian language">Macedonian</a> have lost the infinitive altogether except in a handful of frozen expressions where it is the same as the 3rd person singular aorist form. Almost all expressions where an infinitive may be used in Bulgarian are <a href="/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund#Avoidance_or_loss_of_infinitive" title="Balkan sprachbund">listed here</a>; neverthess in all cases a subordinate clause is the more usual form. For that reason, the present first-person singular conjugation is the dictionary form in Bulgarian, while Macedonian uses the third person singular form of the verb in present tense. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hebrew">Hebrew</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Hebrew"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a> has <i>two</i> infinitives, the infinitive absolute (המקור המוחלט) and the infinitive construct (המקור הנטוי or שם הפועל). The infinitive construct is used after prepositions and is inflected with pronominal endings to indicate its subject or object: בכתוב הסופר <i>bikhtōbh hassōphēr</i> "when the scribe wrote", אחרי לכתו <i>ahare lekhtō</i> "after his going". When the infinitive construct is preceded by <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">ל</span>‎ (<i>lə-</i>, <i>li-</i>, <i>lā-</i>, <i>lo-</i>) "to", it has a similar meaning to the English <i>to</i>-infinitive, and this is its most frequent use in Modern Hebrew. The infinitive absolute is used for verb focus and emphasis, like in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">מות ימות</span>‎ <i>mōth yāmūth</i> (literally "a dying he will die"; figuratively, "he shall indeed/surely die").<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This usage is commonplace in the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a>. In Modern Hebrew it is restricted to high-register literary works. </p><p>Note, however, that the Hebrew <i>to</i>-infinitive is not the <a href="/wiki/Lemma_(morphology)" title="Lemma (morphology)">dictionary form</a>; instead, verbs are traditionally cited in the third-person masculine singular of the suffix conjugation (Modern Hebrew past tense), which is the least marked form. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Finnish">Finnish</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Finnish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Finnish_verb_conjugation" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish verb conjugation">Finnish verb conjugation</a></div> <p>The Finnish grammatical tradition includes many non-finite forms that are generally labeled as (numbered) infinitives although many of these are functionally <a href="/wiki/Converb" title="Converb">converbs</a>. To form the so-called first infinitive, the strong form of the root (without <a href="/wiki/Consonant_gradation" title="Consonant gradation">consonant gradation</a> or epenthetic 'e') is used, and these changes occur: </p> <ol><li>the root is suffixed with <i>-ta/-tä</i> according to <a href="/wiki/Vowel_harmony" title="Vowel harmony">vowel harmony</a></li> <li>consonant elision takes place if applicable, e.g., <i>juoks+ta</i> → <i>juosta</i></li> <li>assimilation of clusters violating sonority hierarchy if applicable, e.g., <i>nuol+ta</i> → <i>nuolla</i>, <i>sur+ta</i> → <i>surra</i></li> <li>'t' weakens to 'd' after diphthongs, e.g., <i>juo+ta</i> → <i>juoda</i></li> <li>'t' elides if intervocalic, e.g., <i>kirjoitta+ta</i> → <i>kirjoittaa</i></li></ol> <p>As such, it is inconvenient for dictionary use, because the imperative would be closer to the root word. Nevertheless, dictionaries use the first infinitive. </p><p>There are also four other infinitives, plus a "long" form of the first: </p> <ul><li>The long first infinitive is <i>-kse-</i> and must have a personal suffix appended to it. It has the general meaning of "in order to [do something], e.g., <i>kirjoittaakseni</i> "in order for me to write [something]".</li> <li>The second infinitive is formed by replacing the final <i>-a/-ä</i> of the first infinitive with <i>e</i>. It can take the inessive and instructive cases to create forms like <i>kirjoittaessa</i> "while writing".</li> <li>The third infinitive is formed by adding <i>-ma</i> to the first infinitive, which alone creates an "agent" form: <i>kirjoita-</i> becomes <i>kirjoittama</i>. The third infinitive is technically a noun (denoting the act of performing some verb), so case suffixes identical to those attached to ordinary Finnish nouns allow for other expressions using the third infinitive, e.g., <i>kirjoittamalla</i> "by writing". <ul><li>A personal suffix can then be added to this form to indicate the <i>agent participle</i>, such that <i>kirjoittamani kirja</i> = "The book that I wrote."</li></ul></li> <li>The fourth infinitive adds <i>-minen</i> to the first to form a noun that has the connotation of "the process of [doing something]", e.g., <i>kirjoittaminen</i> "[the process of] writing". It, too, can be inflected like other Finnish nouns that end in <i>-nen</i>.</li> <li>The fifth infinitive adds <i>-maisilla-</i> to the first, and like the long first infinitive, must take a possessive suffix. It has to do with being "about to [do something]" and may also imply that the act was cut off or interrupted, e.g., <i>kirjoittamaisillasi</i> "you were about to write [but something interrupted you]". This form is more commonly replaced by the third infinitive in adessive case, usually also with a possessive suffix (thus <i>kirjoittamallasi</i>).</li></ul> <p>Note that all of these must change to reflect vowel harmony, so the fifth infinitive (with a third-person suffix) of <i>hypätä</i> "jump" is <i>hyppäämäisillään</i> "he was about to jump", not <i>*hyppäämaisillaan</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Seri">Seri</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Seri"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Seri_language" title="Seri language">Seri language</a> of northwestern Mexico has infinitival forms used in two constructions (with the verb meaning 'want' and with the verb meaning 'be able'). The infinitive is formed by adding a prefix to the stem: either <i>iha-</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[iʔa-]</span> (plus a vowel change of certain vowel-initial stems) if the complement clause is <a href="/wiki/Transitive_verb" title="Transitive verb">transitive</a>, or <i>ica-</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ika-]</span> (and no vowel change) if the complement clause is <a href="/wiki/Intransitive_verb" title="Intransitive verb">intransitive</a>. The infinitive shows agreement in number with the controlling subject. Examples are: <i>icatax ihmiimzo</i> 'I want to go', where <i>icatax</i> is the singular infinitive of the verb 'go' (singular root is <i>-atax</i>), and <i>icalx hamiimcajc</i> 'we want to go', where <i>icalx</i> is the plural infinitive. Examples of the transitive infinitive: <i>ihaho</i> 'to see it/him/her/them' (root <i>-aho</i>), and <i>ihacta</i> 'to look at it/him/her/them' (root <i>-oocta</i>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translation_to_languages_without_an_infinitive">Translation to languages without an infinitive</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Infinitive&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Translation to languages without an infinitive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In languages without an infinitive, the infinitive is translated either as a <i>that</i>-clause or as a <a href="/wiki/Verbal_noun" title="Verbal noun">verbal noun</a>. For example, in <a href="/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic" title="Modern Standard Arabic">Literary Arabic</a> the sentence "I want to write a book" is translated as either <i>urīdu an aktuba kitāban</i> (lit. "I want that I write a book", with a verb in the <a href="/wiki/Subjunctive_mood" title="Subjunctive mood">subjunctive mood</a>) or <i>urīdu kitābata kitābin</i> (lit. "I want the writing of a book", with the <i>masdar</i> or verbal noun), and in <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Levantine Colloquial Arabic</a> <i>biddi aktub kitāb</i> (subordinate clause with verb in subjunctive). </p><p>Even in languages that have infinitives, similar constructions are sometimes necessary where English would allow the infinitive. For example, in French the sentence "I want you to come" translates to <i>Je veux que vous veniez</i> (lit. "I want that you come", <i>come</i> being in the subjunctive mood). However, "I want to come" is simply <i>Je veux venir</i>, using the infinitive, just as in English. In Russian, sentences such as "I want you to leave" do not use an infinitive. 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