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Principal parts

In language learning, the principal parts of a verb are those forms that a student must memorize in order to be able to conjugate the verb through all its forms. Although the term 'principal part' is usually applied to verbs, the same phenomenon can be found in some languages in nouns and other word types. It is normally restricted to regular verbs, nouns, etc., and applies to languages where the regular paradigm is based on more than one underlying form. It does not cover random irregularities.

Usage examples of "principal parts".

And for so much as our churches and universities have been so spoiled in time of error, as there cannot yet be had such number of able pastors as may suffice for every parish to have one, therebare (beside four sermons appointed by public order in the year) certain sermons or homilies (devised by sundry learned men, confirmed for sound doctrine by consent of the divines, and public authority of the prince), and those appointed to be read by the curates of mean understanding (which homilies do comprehend the principal parts of Christian doctrine, as of original sin, of justification by faith, of charity, and such like) upon the Sabbath days unto the congregation.

If all pleasure had been capable of accumulation, -- if this had gone on not only be recurrences in time, but all over the frame or, at any rate, over the principal parts of human nature, there would never have been any difference between one pleasure and another, as in fact there is.

Potatoes at least are never wanting, which, though they have not known them long, are now one of the principal parts of their food.

So the first thing to do was to learn the identity of those persons who played the principal parts in it.

I asked her permission to bring him there, as it was essential for me to go through both principal parts with them together, and she gave her agreement.

They did not approve of her choice of Daphne for the principal parts, but that couldn't be helped.

Thus the whole system of metaphysic consists of four principal parts.

It consisted of two principal parts-a metal block base that appeared to be very inert and heavy, and a cage.