When you look up a verb in the dictionary you find the infinitive form.‎ In English it’s made ... without ‘to’, or a verb ending with ‘-ing’. Je veux boire de l’eau.

Gerunds are the -ing form of a verb, and infinitives are the to + base form. These words can be confusing; they combine the meaning of a verb with the grammar of a noun. My father asked me to ...

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...