====== Phrasal verbs ======
**//Phrasal verb//** is the combination of two or three words from different grammatical categories, with one being a [[grammar_verb|verb]] and other a particle ([[grammar_adverb|adverb]] or [[adpositions|preposition]]), to form a single semantic unit (from [[lexicon|lexical]] or [[syntax|syntactical]] point of view). These semantic unites cannot be always understood based upon the meanings of individual parts alone, but must be taken as a whole. In other words, the meaning is non-compositional and thus often unpredictable. Phrasal verbs do not include [[syntax_predicate|compound predicates]]. There are thousands of them in English and few in other Indo-European languages. Some combinations of verb with prepositions are not truly phrasal verbs, as prepositions may belong to verb's [[syntax_object|object]] or [[syntax_adverbials|adverbial]] phrase ("give to" is not phrasal verb, while "give up" is), so some articles for people studying English may be inaccurate in that matter.

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[[Nûrlâm]] doesn't have equivalents of English phrasal verbs. However it uses different ways to extend the meaning of basic verbs, which may be translated into English phrasal verbs:
  - derivational [[prefixes]], similarly to German and Russian language, with combined meaning also often unpredictable;
  - [[clitics|clitic]] adverbs of [[grammar_aspect|aspect]], which sometimes modify the basic meaning;

Anyway the majority of English phrasal verbs has unique single-root translation in Nûrlâm, which can be found by picking up a synonym (for example "give up" ~ "surrender", "look for" ~ "seek", "take up" ~ "lift").

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===== See also =====
  - [[wp>Phrasal_verb|Wikipedia]] article about phrasal verbs;