The Contrast of the Compound Verbs Between Albanian, English and German Languages Compounding Verbs as a Verbs or Phrases Verbs
The verbs and the compound verbs are the words that plays the most important part in the sentence, it is possible to be as the simple and compound predicate or nominal predicate. The aim of this paper is to analyses the compound verbs between Albanian, English and German languages and it’s consisted of at least two or more bases as in Albanian: buzëqesh, duartrokas, udhëheq or in English: blackmail, outgrow, overtake, undertake, ill-treat. Compounding is the new word-formation and between Albanian, German and English it has full contrast. So, sometimes it is possible to be the same with structure, but usually it has the contrast as in the first table in this paper. The defamation for compound and “a new meaning comes out which is very different from the meanings of the words in isolation” (Millaku, 2017). The verbs as a compound word (verbs) in Alb. language are few. Among them, the main place is occupied by type-defining compounds as Adverb + Verb = compound verb, as: mirëkuptoj (Eng. I understand the; ger. Ich verstehe das), mirëpres (Eng. welcome, hospitality as adjective and in Ger. Willkommen ar in Alb. mirë se vini); keqkuptoj (Eng. misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend); keqinterpretoj (Ger. falsch interpretieren), keqtrajtoj (Eng. mistreat, Ger. Misshandeln); drejtpeshoj (Eng. poise, Ger. Haltung or in Albanian qëndrim); drejtshkruaj (Eng; write right or in Alb shkruaj drejt, in Ger. Buchstabiere es richtig or it is possible in Alb. shkruajni saktë) and in Alb. drejtvendos, bashkëjetoj, bashkëpunoj, bashkëveproj, parapëlqej, parashikoj, mirëmbaj, parapaguaj, parandaloj etj. Noun + verb = compound verb: buzëqesh, duartrokas, udhëheq, rrethshkruaj etj. Pronoun + verb = compoun verb: vetëvendos, vetëveproj, vetëmbrohem, vetëkuptohet, vetëdrejtoj or in English: blackmail, outgrow, overtake, undertake, ill-treat. Compound verbs from Eng. to Ger: Adjective stem + verb stem: white + wash = to whitewash (Alb. për të zbardhur); frei + geben = freigeben; Adverb stem + verb stem: broad + cast = to broadcast (Alb. për të transmetuar); hinüber + blicken = hinüberblicken. Received: 19 February 2025 / Accepted: 19 June 2025 / Published: 05 July 2025
Authors
- Shkëlqim Millaku (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4007-4082)
- Shpëtim Zymberaj
- Ilir Krusha
Institutions
- University of Prishtina (XK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Educational and Social Research
- Published
- 2025-07-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2025-0144
- Primary Topic
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00