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Originally Posted by SandraT
As exx wrote, it is colloquial and yes, you can use a verb after kind of, just like the example you mention.
I am also putting a link here where you can get more examples and also the meaning.
Kind of: rather: to some (great or small) extent;
"it was rather cold"; "the party was rather nice"; "the knife is rather dull"; "I rather regret that I cannot attend"; "He's rather good at playing the cello"; "he is kind of shy"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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Good explanation! I'll take some of your examples SandraT to translate them the way we say that in Spanish... at least in Argentina:
it was kind of cold: estaba como frío, estaba un tanto frío
I kind of regret that I cannot attend: Como que me arrepiento de no haber ido/asistido
He's kind of shy: es como tímido, es una tanto tímido
It's very colloquial and very much used... now thinking about it... it's an awful grammatical structure
Hope it helps!