Explore Stative through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like active. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stative meaning
- Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property or status.
- Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
Synonyms of Stative
Using Stative
- The main meaning on this page is: Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property or status. | Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
- Useful related words include: active.
- In the example corpus, stative often appears in combinations such as: stative verb, with stative, stative verbs.
Context around Stative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stative
- In this selection, "stative" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, durative, ter, following, verb, verbs and implications stand out and add context to how "stative" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and perfect stative merged into and by its stative verb followed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stative" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Stative verbs are often used for this purpose as well. (10 words)
Other aspects in ASL include the following: stative, inchoative ("to begin to. (12 words)
In addition, adjectival roots can be turned into stative verbs: La ĉielo bluas. (13 words)
The old Germanic languages are famous for having only two tenses (present and past), with three PIE past-tense aspects (imperfect, aorist, and perfect/stative) merged into one and no new tenses (future, pluperfect, etc.) developing. (36 words)
Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers -le 了, -zhe 着, zài- 在, and -guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, Li, Charles, and Sandra Thompson (1981). (32 words)
Hence, in a sentence such as "saya didekati oleh anjing galak" which means "I was approached by a ferocious dog", the use of the adjective "galak" is not stative at all. (31 words)
Example sentences (13)
Hence, in a sentence such as "saya didekati oleh anjing galak" which means "I was approached by a ferocious dog", the use of the adjective "galak" is not stative at all.
However, da always functions as a predicate, so it cannot be combined with a stative verb, because sentences need only one predicate.
However, if "itu" or "ini" were not to be used, then "anjing galak" would meaning only "ferocious dog", a plain adjective without any stative implications.
In addition, adjectival roots can be turned into stative verbs: La ĉielo bluas.
In some cases, its only function is to make a sentence predicated with a stative verb more polite.
Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers -le 了, -zhe 着, zài- 在, and -guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, Li, Charles, and Sandra Thompson (1981).
Often the "ber-" intransitve verb prefix, or the "ter-" stative prefix will be used to suggest a meaning of "to be.
Other aspects in ASL include the following: stative, inchoative ("to begin to.
Other linguists consider the second type to be a different kind of passive – a stative or static passive, in contrast to the dynamic or eventive passive illustrated by the first sentence.
So not only (transitive, intransitive and so-called 'stative') verbs but even nouns often behave like verbs and do not need to have copulas.
Stative verbs are often used for this purpose as well.
The location of the thing whose existence is being stated comes first, followed by its stative verb, followed by the thing itself.
The old Germanic languages are famous for having only two tenses (present and past), with three PIE past-tense aspects (imperfect, aorist, and perfect/stative) merged into one and no new tenses (future, pluperfect, etc.) developing.
Common combinations with stative
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: