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  2. Dynamic verb - Wikipedia

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    Examples of dynamic verbs in English are 'to run', 'to hit', 'to intervene', 'to savour' and 'to go'. A striking feature of modern English is its limited use of the simple present tense of dynamic verbs. Generally, the tense is required to express an action taking place in the present (I am going).

  3. Stative verb - Wikipedia

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    According to some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action.The difference can be categorized by saying that stative verbs describe situations that are static, or unchanging throughout their entire duration, whereas dynamic verbs describe processes that entail change over time. [1]

  4. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  5. Passive voice - Wikipedia

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    In English, the passive voice expressed with the auxiliary verb "get" rather than "be" ("get-passive") expresses a dynamic rather than a static meaning. But when the auxiliary verb "be" is used, the main verb can have either a dynamic or static meaning as shown below (including copies of some examples from above): The dog gets fed twice a day ...

  6. Adyghe verbs - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic verbs express (process of) actions that are taking place while steady-state verbs express the condition and the state of the subject. For example, in Adyghe, there are two verbs for "standing", one is a dynamic verb and the other is a steady-state verb: steady-state: The verb щыт /ɕət/ expresses someone in a standing state.

  7. Voice (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Italian uses two verbs (essere and venire) to translate the static and the dynamic passive: Dynamic passive auxiliary verb: essere and venire (to be and to come) La porta è aperta. or La porta viene aperta. "The door is opened [by someone]" or "The door comes open [by someone]". La porta è chiusa. or La porta viene chiusa.

  8. Dynamic modality - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic modality is a linguistic modality that is the ability or requirement of the subject to do something. [1] Dynamic modality is non- subjective in contrast to the similar deontic modality . [ 1 ]

  9. Ubykh language - Wikipedia

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    /ʃɜwtʃɨ/ 1. POSS - PL -horse /ʃɜwtʃɨ/ 1.POSS-PL-horse Our horses Verbs A past – present – future distinction of verb tense exists and an imperfective aspect suffix is also found. Dynamic and stative verbs are contrasted, as in Arabic, and verbs have several nominal forms. Morphological causatives are not uncommon. The conjunctions /ɡʲɨ/ ('and') and /ɡʲɨlɜ/ ('but') are ...