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Verb that describes a state of being
distinguish between them. Some verbs may act as either stative or dynamic. A phrase like "he plays the piano" may be either stative or dynamic, according to
Stative_verb
Siouan language in Montana
subject of a stative verb. Active verbs and stative verbs are marked with distinct sets of pronominal affixes: the "A-set" for active verbs and the "B-set"
Crow_language
Type of morphosyntactic alignment in linguistic typology
transitive clause are termed A (agent of a transitive verb) and P (patient of a transitive verb), active–stative languages are languages that align intransitive
Active–stative_alignment
Grammar of the Zulu language of Southern Africa
tense, a stative verb can be formed by changing the vowels of the last two vowels of the stem, depending on the ending of the verb. A stative verb is not
Zulu_grammar
Functional part of speech in most languages
their structure—are verbs. So not only (transitive, intransitive and so-called "stative") verbs but even nouns often behave like verbs and do not need to
Copula_(linguistics)
Verb that does not entail a direct object
intransitive verb sentence structure is often used, with no object attached. There must be a stative or active verb to have an intransitive sentence. A stative verb
Intransitive_verb
perfective verbs. Optative mood Stative endings used for Indicative mood of stative verbs. Imperative endings used for Imperative mood of all verbs. Note that
Proto-Indo-European_verbs
Part of speech that conveys an action
which case the aspect is embedded in the verb's meaning (as in "the sun shines", where "shines" is lexically stative), or it can be grammatically expressed
Verb
Verb that describes a continued or progressive action
study of Semitic languages) a fientive verb. This is the opposite of a stative verb. Actions denoted by dynamic verbs have duration. They occur over a span
Dynamic_verb
Grammatical construction
and stative passives is more evident in languages such as German that use different words or constructions for the two. In German, the auxiliary verb sein
Passive_voice
relatively permanent state, as in We live in Dallas. They may also denote a temporary state (imperfective aspect), in the case of stative verbs that do not use
Uses_of_English_verb_forms
Category of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause
distinguish between adjectives and adverbs, or between adjectives and verbs (see stative verb). Because of such variation in the number of categories and their
Part_of_speech
Early form of Tibetan language
ma. There is also a negative stative verb med 'there is not, there does not exist', the counterpart to the stative verb yod 'there is, there exists'.
Classical_Tibetan
Grammatical system of a language that covers the expression of tense, aspect, and mood
innate stative aspect, as in "I am feeling better." For some stative verbs such as feel, the innate stative nature can be unmarked, so the simple verb form
Tense–aspect–mood
Verbs in the English language
of the copula verb be (or sometimes get) together with the past participle of the main verb. In this context be is not a stative verb, so it may occur
English_verbs
Verbs in the Arabic language
occurs in some (especially intransitive) and u occurs only in a few stative verbs (i.e. whose meaning is 'be X' or 'become X' where X is an adjective)
Arabic_verbs
Type of verb in Germanic languages
of Class III verbs—but they consistently follow the stative paradigm, unlike the three languages above. An example is the stative verb reconstructed
Germanic_weak_verb
Verbs that behave as an adjective
its argument). It is a special kind of stative verb. Many languages do not use the present forms of the verb "to be" to separate an adjective from its
Predicative_verb
Northwest Caucasian language of Abkhazia
distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs, as well as dynamic and stative. Stative verbs describe states of being, roughly analogous to copular
Abkhaz_language
Part of Korean grammar class
action verbs, see wikt:Category:Korean verbs. Stative or descriptive verbs are sometimes called adjectives. For a list of Korean stative verbs, see wikt:Category:Korean
Korean_verbs
Grammar of the Georgian language
"hang" is a stative verb. There are numerous irregular verbs in Georgian; most of them employ the conjugation system of Class 2 intransitive verbs. Irregular
Georgian_grammar
stative verbs. Below is the present tense conjugation for the stative verb щысын "to be sitting". Note the subject prefixes used. Positional stative verbs
Adyghe_verbs
Aspect of verb grammar
stative verbs in other languages) can express the acquisition of a quality or changes of state with causatives, in the same way as with regular verbs
Causative
Mongolic language of Northwest China
cases. Type category (mood or modality) Aspect category (manner or state of verb action) Voice category (relationship between action and its subject)
Santa_language
intransitive verbs. Instead of adjectives, Chinese varieties use stative verbs, which can function as predicates but differ from intransitive verbs in being
Varieties_of_Chinese
Grammatical aspect signifying habit
habitual aspect when the infinitive is a non-stative verb; in contrast, when used to is used with a stative verb, the aspect can be interpreted as continuous
Habitual_aspect
Verb form modifying a noun or noun phrase
eaten, we returned home. Note that a past participle that complements a stative verb (e.g., "The files that are attached or "Our comrades who have fallen")
Participle
Grammatical voice in the English language
components, in English, are a form of the stative verb be (or sometimes get) and the past participle of the verb denoting the action. The agent (the doer
English_passive_voice
Muskogean language spoken in US
verbs and the subject of stative verbs. Class III prefixes indicate the indirect object of active verbs. A small set of stative psychological verbs have
Choctaw_language
equivalent stative verb for each one that would describe being in the state of having completed that process, i.e. "to be [state]". Stative meanings such
Swahili_grammar
Grammatical category expressing how a verb extends over time
habitual aspect, or for stative aspect, or for perfective aspect in the past. Invariant pre-verbal markers are often used. Non-stative verbs typically can optionally
Grammatical_aspect
Assumed context surrounding an utterance
to be a property of the main verbs of the sentences, think and say, respectively. After work by Lauri Karttunen, verbs that allow presuppositions to
Presupposition
Adjectives in Chinese
as verbs (for example 天黑了; tiān hēi le; lit. "sky black perfective") and thus linguists sometimes prefer to use the terms static or stative verb to describe
Chinese_adjectives
Oto-Pamean language family of south-central Mexico
intransitive verbs take the object suffix instead of the subject prefix. Often such intransitive verbs are stative, i.e. describing a state, which has prompted
Otomi_language
City in Arizona, United States
from the O'odham Cuk Ṣon (O'odham pronunciation: [tʃʊk ʂɔːn]). Cuk is a stative verb meaning "(be) black, (be) dark". Ṣon is (in this usage) a noun referring
Tucson,_Arizona
afraid of the dog). Verbs in this class denote feelings, sensations and endurant states of being (see also stative verbs), including verbs such as q̇av - to
Georgian_conjugation
Indigenous language of South America
an active-stative language. In other words, Guarani consists of active transitive verbs as well as both active and stative intransitive verbs. To indicate
Guarani_language
Family of languages and dialects Indigenous to North Africa
and stative verb forms are used to modify nouns instead. The gender, number, and case of nouns, as well as the gender, number, and person of verbs, are
Berber_languages
Topics referred to by the same term
Stative may refer to: Stative, a type of verb Donje Stative, a village in Croatia Gornje Stative, a village in Croatia This disambiguation page lists articles
Stative_(disambiguation)
Feature of language
In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that
Subject–object–verb word order
Subject–object–verb_word_order
Dormant Northwest Caucasian language
nouns and verbs is somewhat blurred. Any noun can be used as the root of a stative verb (/mɨzɨ/ 'child', /sɨmɨzɨjtʼ/ 'I was a child'), and many verb roots
Ubykh_language
Verb that can be used transitively or intransitively
In general linguistics, a labile verb (or ergative / diffused / ambivalent verb) is a verb that undergoes causative alternation; that is, it can be used
Labile_verb
Type of inflection in Germanic languages
imperfective aspect). The perfect was a stative verb, and referred not to the event itself, but to the state that resulted from the event ("has eaten"
Germanic_strong_verb
Linguistic area of South America
Argentina. Common Chaco areal features include SVO word order and active-stative verb alignment. Campbell and Grondona (2012) list the following languages
Chaco_linguistic_area
Cosmological dualism in Chinese philosophy
⑨ south bank of a river, ⑩ reverse side of a stele, ⑪ in intaglio; Stative verb: ① overcast, ② sinister; treacherous Yang 陽 or 阳—Bound morpheme: ① [Chinese
Yin_and_yang
Important set of words in the Basque language
The verb is one of the most complex parts of Basque grammar. It is sometimes represented as a difficult challenge for learners of the language, and many
Basque_verbs
Verbs in the Slovene language
an auxiliary verb. The stative l-participle denotes a state of an object and can also be used as a stand-alone adjective, but not all verbs have it. It
Slovene_verbs
Indigenous language family of western Canada and the US
involves a negative predicate in the form of an impersonal and intransitive stative verb, which occurs in sentence initial position. The second pattern involves
Salishan_languages
Verb form derived from common earlier Germanic languages
the development of the stative aspect to a past tense, being a hybrid of the two that emphasizes the ongoing (present/stative) effects of a past action
Germanic_verbs
Sentence structure; the default word order in English
In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages
Subject–verb–object word order
Subject–verb–object_word_order
Overview of how Japanese verbs conjugate
Japanese conjugation, like the conjugation of verbs of many other languages, allows verbs to be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical
Japanese_conjugation
burn" (intransitive), to be burning (stative verb) – ver-brennen (etwas), "to burn (something)" (transitive) (action verb), to burn completely be-ginnen, "to
German_verbs
Berber language of southwestern Morocco
many other stative verbs which do not belong to this separate type, such as rɣ "to be hot", uggug "to be distant", and all stative verbs borrowed from
Shilha_language
Class of auxiliary verbs in English that lack untensed forms
Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to
English_modal_auxiliary_verbs
Verb adding grammatical meaning rather than content meaning
An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect
Auxiliary_verb
English-based creole spoken in Hawaii
essence a stative verb form. Additionally, inverted sentence order may be used for emphasis. (Many East Asian languages use stative verbs instead of
Hawaiian_Pidgin
Traditional Jewish dish consumed on Saturday
be not intensive but causative. (The rule being that the pi'el of a stative verb will be causative, instead of the usual hif'il.) Hence bi'er means "kindle"
Sabbath_stew
Pattern relating to the subject and object of verbs
structure. Active-stative language Ergative verb Symmetrical voice (aka Austronesian alignment) Unaccusative verb Unergative verb This article uses the
Ergative–absolutive_alignment
Extinct indigenous language of Mississippi and Louisiana
characterized by active-stative alignment and subject-object-verb word order (or more accurately Agent-Object-Verb and Subject-Verb). Natchez storytellers
Natchez_language
Type of verb, such as "might", that is used to indicate modality
A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,
Modal_verb
Grammar of the Japanese language
semantically and morphologically similar to stative verbs. adjectival nouns (形容動詞, keiyōdōshi; lit. "adjectival verb", conventionally called "na-adjectives")–
Japanese_grammar
Extinct Northwest Semitic language
or -u-. Most verbs describe an activity (so-called “active verbs”) and have -a-. Verbs describing a state or property (“stative verbs”) have -i- or (rarely)
Ugaritic
Grammatical component
verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their
Light_verb
Siouan language of US Midwest
intransitive verbs fall into three main types: intransitive active verbs, intransitive stative verbs, and intransitive 'third person-only' verbs. Intransitive
Ho-Chunk_language
Bantu language official in Rwanda
dynamic categories. In the immediate tense, dynamic verbs take the imperfective stem while stative verbs take the perfective stem, while both use the imperfective
Kinyarwanda
position, O ne a paqame He was lying The stative extensive is a dead stative formation found in a few miscellaneous verbs, united by the fact that they all indicate
Sotho_verbs
Ancient Roman term for a rural subdivision of a tribal territory
ground". In semantics, *pag- used in pāgus is a stative verb with an unmarked lexical aspect of state resulting from completed action: "it is having been
Pagus
Language from Mexico
intransitive verbs take the object suffix instead of the agent prefix, usually these intransitive verbs are stative, i.e. describing a state. This has led
Temoaya_Otomi
Language component
The helping verb varies by aspect: wisan ("to be") creates a stative passive (gibans was*, "was given, has been given"), whereas the verb wairþan ("to
Gothic_verbs
Arawakan language spoken in South America
additions to letters. Arawak verbs are classified either as 'event' or 'non-event' (aka 'stative') verbs. Most stative verbs express adjectival meanings
Lokono_language
Concept in English grammar
traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down
English_phrasal_verbs
When a grammatical category forms a compound while retaining original syntactic function
prefixed verbs. Another restriction in the language is that stative verbs do not allow noun incorporation, even if the stative verbs are not prefixed verbs. However
Incorporation_(linguistics)
Grammar of the Vietnamese language
stative and functive, according to their syntactic behavior. Stative verbs (also known as verbs of quality, extended state verbs, adjectival verbs or
Vietnamese_grammar
Verb formed from a noun
Look up denominal verb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, denominal verbs are verbs derived from nouns. Many languages have regular morphological
Denominal_verb
Portuguese-based creole of Cape Verde
perfective of the past; Note.: Some authors call these verbs "stative verbs" and to these verbs they add others: gosta, konxe, merese, mora, txoma, bale
Cape_Verdean_Creole
Grammar of the Kabyle language
the construct state's appearance. Adjectives can be formed by deriving a verb or using elements placed before the noun. From a stative verb: izwiɣ "to be
Kabyle_grammar
Grammatical category for verbs
grammar, the voice (or diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified
Voice_(grammar)
Austronesian language of Taiwan
comparatives (with stative bases of measurement); often synonymous with /ma/- (stative verb marker) mat- : derives intransitive or stative verbs mati- : locative
Thao_language
Concept in linguistics
term negative verb or negative auxiliary refers to an auxiliary verb whose function is to negate the clause in which it occurs. Negative verbs are similar
Negative_verb
List of interlinear glossing abbreviations
object of ditransitive verb), L (location argument), O or P (patient of transitive verb), S (single argument of intransitive verb), SA (Sa) and SP (Sp)
List of glossing abbreviations
List_of_glossing_abbreviations
Grammar of the Otomi language
classes of nouns, verbs, and particles. There is a small closed class of property words, variously analyzed as adjectives or stative verbs. According to the
Otomi_grammar
Grammatical tense
main verb) denotes a past habitual situation (I used to play football when I was young), although with a stative verb it can just indicate that a state was
Past_tense
Particles in Japanese
mutually exclusive. Ni, when used to show location, is used only with stative verbs such as iru, "to be, exist;" aru, "to be, exist, have;" and sumu, "to
Japanese_particles
Grammatical rules of the Finnish language
The location of the thing whose existence is being stated comes first, followed by its stative verb, followed by the thing itself. Note how this is unlike
Finnish_grammar
Oldest attested stage of the Japanese language
nouns. They can also take a suffix -ku (an adjectival copula), forming stative verbs conjugated in two classes: The second class, with stems ending in -si
Old_Japanese
Verb form that can complete an independent clause by itself
A finite verb is a verb that contextually complements a subject, which can be either explicit (like in the English indicative) or implicit (like in null
Finite_verb
Curved decorative scepter or talisman
idea; meaning; imagination"). Standard Chinese uses ruyi either as a stative verb meaning "as desired; as one wishes, as one likes; according to one's
Ruyi_(scepter)
English verb
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The verb go is an irregular verb in the English language (see English irregular verbs). It has a wide range of uses; its
Go_(verb)
Grammatical contrast of present tense verbs
effect of the progressive form on the meanings of action verbs versus those of lexically stative verbs: [I]t converts events expected to be punctual into longer-lasting
Continuous and progressive aspects
Continuous_and_progressive_aspects
Grammar of the Hawaiian language
markers include verb + mai: "toward the speaker" verb + aku: "away from the speaker" verb + iho: "down" verb + aʻe: "up", "adjacent" stative verb + iā + agent:
Hawaiian_grammar
Ancestor of the Indo-European languages
Indo-European verb is grammatical aspect. Verbs are classed as: stative: verbs that depict a state of being imperfective: verbs depicting ongoing, habitual or repeated
Proto-Indo-European_language
Particles in Chinese
(ānjìng dì/de shuì zháo le) 'fell asleep quietly' 得(dé/de) is used to mark verb complements (補語). E.g.: 學習得很認真 (xuéxí dé/de hěn rènzhēn) 'study very hard'
Chinese_particles
Oto-Manguean of Mexico
the stative morpheme is m. Stative verbs that indicate position begin with other letters, although there does not seem to be a pattern. Stative verbs describe
Yatzachi_Zapotec
Verb that entails a transitive object
transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which
Transitive_verb
Proto-language of all the Slavic languages
causatives in *-éye- and stative verbs in *-ē- (cf. similar verbs in the Latin -ēre conjugation) as well as factitive verbs in *-ā- (cf. the Latin -āre
Proto-Slavic_language
Semantic role
changes state ("I crushed the car") and theme describes something that does not change state ("I have the car"). By that definition, stative verbs act on
Patient_(grammar)
Verb system of the Circassian languages
Circassian verbs fall into two aspectual classes: dynamic (expressing actions, processes, or changes of state — what the subject does) and stative (also static
Circassian_verbs
Verbs that can't complete a clause (such as "going" or "to live")
Nonfinite verbs are verb forms that do not show tense, person, or number. They include: Infinitives (e.g., to go, to see), which are the base forms of verbs, and
Nonfinite_verb
Conjugation of verbs in the Spanish language
tables—of Spanish verbs, including examples of regular verbs and some of the most common irregular verbs. For other irregular verbs and their common patterns
Spanish_conjugation
Subfield of linguistic semantics
with a stative intransitive adjective, and derive (4b) where we see an intransitive inchoative verb. In (4c) we see a transitive causative verb. Some languages
Lexical_semantics
STATIVE VERB
STATIVE VERB
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name WUTI means "woman."
Female
Native American
Native American Sioux name WITASHNAH means "virginal."
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name ZIHNA means "spins."
Female
Native American
Native American name APONI means "butterfly."
Male
Native American
Native American Sioux name CHAYTON means "falcon."
Girl/Female
Greek American
Shall be reborn.
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name YOKI means "rain."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ASKOOK means "snake."
Male
Native American
Native American Navajo name ASHKII means "boy."
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English, French, Greek, Latin
Resurrection; Fruitful; Shall be Reborn; Form of Anastasia; Giving Fruit
Male
Native American
Native American Hopi name CHOOVIO means "antelope."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ABUKCHEECH means "mouse."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ABOOKSIGUN means "wildcat."
Female
English
Feminine variant spelling of English unisex Stacey, STACIE means "resurrection."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name CHOGAN means "blackbird."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name ACHAK means "spirit."
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Ninth Child
Female
Native American
Native American Hopi name YAMKA means "blossom."
Female
Native American
Native American Dakota name ZITKALA means "bird."
Male
Native American
Native American Algonquin name CHANSOMPS means "locust."
STATIVE VERB
STATIVE VERB
Boy/Male
Hindu
Surname or Lastname
English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : variant of Duley, without the preposition d’.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sankeertana | ஸஂகிரà¯à®¤à®¨
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Linden Tree Meadow
Boy/Male
Indian
The ultimate trustee, The disposer of affairs
Girl/Female
Tamil
Goddess Durga
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Meditation on Lord Unwaveringly
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Parsi, Telugu
Turquoise
Boy/Male
Arabic, Indian, Muslim
Firmly Rooted
STATIVE VERB
STATIVE VERB
STATIVE VERB
STATIVE VERB
STATIVE VERB
p. pr. & vb. n.
of State
v. t.
To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.
v. t.
To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
v. t.
To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
v. t.
To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
n.
The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy.
a.
Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child.
a.
Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
a.
Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
n.
The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
n.
The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.
a.
An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.
v. i.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
a.
Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
n.
A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
n.
To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
n.
State; rank; condition of life; social status.
a.
Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.
n.
The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.
a.
Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.