📚 adj • entry_id 45242
stative
/ˈsteɪtɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
de estado • estativo
Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property or status.
2000James P. Allen: Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. Cambridge University Press The stative is a verb form used to express a state of be…
Granted, then, that the original meaning of these verbs was stative, the fact that a number of them have more or less involuntary meaning admits of a ready explanation. From the id…
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