- phrasal verb phras·al verb n
- [ˌfreɪz(ə)l'vɜːb]
Gram verbo seguito da preposizione o avverbio
English-Italian dictionary. 2013.
English-Italian dictionary. 2013.
phrasal verb — phras′al verb′ n. gram. a combination of verb and one or more adverbs or prepositions, as catch on, take off, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning not predictable from the meanings of the… … From formal English to slang
Phrase — For other uses, see Phrase (disambiguation). In everyday speech, a phrase may refer to any group of words. In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words which form a constituent and so function as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. A… … Wikipedia