A negative verb is a type of auxiliary that is used to form the negative of a main verb. The main verb itself has no personal endings, while the negative verb takes the inflection. The English auxiliary don't or doesn't performs a similar function: one says we don't make, where make has no inflection, and don't is essentially a negative verb that indicates the person/number of we (contrast he doesn't with a different person/number).
Read more about Negative Verb: English, Uralic Languages, Japanese, Korean
Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or verb:
“A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)