infintief

Infintief appears to be a misspelling of infinitief (Dutch) or infinitive (English and many other languages). The infinitive is the base, non-finite form of a verb used to express a verb’s action in a general sense, without indicating subject or tense. In linguistic descriptions, infinitives are contrasted with finite verb forms that show person and number and encode tense.

In English, the infinitive is typically formed with to plus the base verb, as in to eat or to go. It can express purpose (I study to learn), as well as nominal or adjectival meanings in phrases like the need to act. The bare infinitive (without to) occurs after modal verbs and some other verbs, as in I can swim or help me move.

In Dutch, the corresponding form is the infinitief. Dutch uses a particle te to form infinitival clauses, for example Ik probeer te lezen (I am trying to read). The infinitief is uninflected and appears in dictionaries as the basic verb form, with conjugated forms used for finite clauses.

In German, the term Infinitiv refers to the infinitive. It often appears in subordinate clauses with the particle zu, as in Ich hoffe, bald zu gehen. German also allows a bare infinitive in certain fixed constructions, though most infinitive clauses use zu.

In other languages, such forms exist under different names: French uses infinitif (parler, finir), Spanish uses infinitivo, Italian infinito, etc. While the precise usage and accompanying particles vary by language, the infinitive consistently functions as the non-finite base form of a verb used to refer to actions in a general sense.