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...

perfective verbs. Optative mood Stative endings used for Indicative mood of stative verbs. Imperative endings used for Imperative mood of all verbs. Note that...

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...

transitive clause are termed A (agent of a transitive verb) and P (patient of a transitive verb), active–stative languages can be described as languages that align...

or fientive verb is a verb that shows continued or progressive action on the part of the subject. This is the opposite of a stative verb. Actions denoted...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

English, the passive voice is marked by a subject that is followed by a stative verb complemented by a past participle. For example: The enemy was defeated...

of Class III verbs—but they consistently follow the stative paradigm, unlike the three languages above. An example is the stative verb reconstructed...

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...

distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs, as well as dynamic and stative. Stative verbs describe states of being, roughly analogous to copular...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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)...

A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order,...

In grammar, a ditransitive (or bitransitive) verb is a transitive verb whose contextual use corresponds to a subject and two objects which refer to a...

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...

In general linguistics, a labile verb (or ergative verb) is a verb that undergoes causative alternation; that is, it can be used both transitively and...

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'....

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...

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...

distinguish between adjectives and adverbs, or between adjectives and verbs (see stative verb). Because of such variation in the number of categories and their...

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...

intransitive verbs fall into three main types: intransitive active verbs, intransitive stative verbs, and intransitive 'third person-only' verbs. Intransitive...