Meanings
plural to-infinitives
- grammarThe English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.
1 more example
As it turned out, much previous work on the subject is based on two assumptions about the situation of the to-infinitive in OE that have never been tested, but have, through constant reiteration, achieved the status of axioms: first, that the categorial status of the to-infinitive in OE is PP; and secondly, that the to-infinitive spread at the expense of the infinitive without to, the bare infinitive (see below, §§1.2 and 1.3).
2005, Bettelou Los, “Introduction”, in The Rise of the To-Infinitive (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4Synonyms: full infinitive, marked infinitive
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.
Translations
French infinitif avec to, infinitif complet
- infinitif avec touninflected verb form
- infinitif completuninflected verb form
Japanese to不定詞
- to不定詞 (to futeishi)uninflected verb form
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to-infinitive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to-infinitive
“to-infinitive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to-infinitive. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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