#X word verbs free

#X word verbs free

Languages regarded as SVO include: All Bantu languages, Albanian, Arabic dialects, Assyrian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish (but see below), French, Greek, Hausa, Icelandic (with the V2 restriction), Igbo, Italian, Javanese, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay ( Indonesian, Malaysian), Modern Hebrew, Norwegian (with the V2 restriction), Polish, Portuguese, Quiché, Reo Rapa, Romanian, Russian (but see below), Slovene, Spanish, Swedish (with the V2 restriction), Thai, Toki Pona, and Lao, Ukrainian (but see below), Vietnamese and Yoruba.Īncient Greek has free syntactic order, though Classical Greeks tended to favor SOV. It is also the most common order developed in Creole languages, suggesting that it may be somehow more initially 'obvious' to human psychology. Together, SVO and SOV account for more than 75% of the world's languages. SVO is the second-most common order by number of known languages, after SOV.

An example is ' Sam ate oranges.' The label often includes ergative languages that do not have subjects, but have an agent–verb–object (AVO) order. Languages may be classified according to the dominant sequence of these elements in unmarked sentences (i.e., sentences in which an unusual word order is not used for emphasis). In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object ( SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third.