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In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object.That lack of an object distinguishes intransitive verbs from transitive verbs, which entail one or more objects.
Jugyō が ga 始まる 。 hajimaru. 授業 が 始まる 。 Jugyō ga hajimaru. The class starts. 先生 Sensei が ga 授業 jugyō を o 始める 。 hajimeru. 先生 が 授業 を 始める 。 Sensei ga jugyō o hajimeru. The teacher starts the class. However, the definition of transitive verbs as those with one object is not universal, and is not used in grammars of many languages ...
In English, a non-finite verb form may constitute: an infinitive verb, including the auxiliary verb have —; within a verb phrase that is predicated by a modal verb (e.g., "I could have cried").
Malay grammar is the body of rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Malay language (Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore) and Indonesian (Indonesia and Timor Leste).
The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use – and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle.
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]
Japanese verb conjugation is very regular, as is usual for an agglutinative language, but there are a number of exceptions.The best-known irregular verbs (不規則動詞 [citation needed], fukisoku dōshi) are the common verbs する suru "do" and 来る kuru "come", sometimes categorized as the two Group 3 verbs.
In mathematics, a binary relation R on a set X is transitive if, for all elements a, b, c in X, whenever R relates a to b and b to c, then R also relates a to c.. Every partial order and every equivalence relation is transitive.