Gerundive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GERUNDIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a Latin verbal adjective expressing necessity
• a form of a Latin verb, ending in -ndus (declinable) and functioning as an adjective meaning ‘that should or must be done’.
• (in Latin grammar) an adjective formed from a verb, expressing the desirability of the activity denoted by the verb
• The future passive participle; as, amandus, i. e., to be loved.
• a form of a Latin verb, ending in -ndus (declinable) and functioning as an adjective meaning ‘that should or must be done’.
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to a gerund
• Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial.
• of or relating to the gerund or gerundive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the Latin future passive participle that functions as the verbal adjective, that expresses the fitness or necessity of the action to be performed, and that has the same suffix as the gerund

Words related to GERUNDIVE

gerundival15 gerundively19 gerundives15

Words that contain GERUNDIVE

gerundives15 gerundively19

How to use GERUNDIVE in a sentence

• The confounding of it with the gerundive is now, in either language, of little or no consequence, since in modern French, as well as in English, both are indeclinable.
• For this reason, I have framed the syntactical rule for participles so as to include under that name the gerund, or gerundive, which is a participle governed by a preposition.
• The Present Active Participle, the Gerund, and Gerundive.
• The Active is formed by combining the Future Active Participle with the auxiliary sum, the Passive by combining the Gerundive with the same auxiliary.

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