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Suffix
Suffix: a bound morpheme attached after a root or stem, as in English -ity or plural -s. Distinguished from prefixes, infixes, circumfixes; split into inflectional and derivational types; subject of the cross-linguistic suffixing preference.
Transitive verb
Transitive verb: a verb that takes a direct object (English transitive/intransitive verbs, verbs with both uses). Distinguished from intransitive verbs by requiring an object; includes two-object verbs, Hopper-Thompson transitivity, and historical changes in English transitivity.
Verb
Verb: the word class expressing actions, events, and states; forms the minimal predicate of a clause and governs arguments, inflected for tense, aspect, mood, voice, and agreement, and essentially universal across languages.
Vocative case
Vocative case marks a noun whose referent is being addressed (Latin Brute, Et tu Brute). Marked by particles, suffixes, or intonation; disputed as a true case since it encodes speech-act function rather than syntactic relation. Residuary in Indo-European, well preserved in Czech and Romanian, lost in Slovak.
Voice (grammar)
Voice (grammar), or grammatical voice, is the morphosyntactic category (active, passive, middle, antipassive, etc.) marking how semantic roles map onto grammatical roles, studied from Pāṇini and Dionysius Thrax to modern typology.