"abstract verb" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: abstract verbs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} abstract verb (plural abstract verbs)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see abstract, verb. Synonyms: indeterminate verb, indefinite verb, potential verb
    Sense id: en-abstract_verb-en-noun-3oVJvhtB
  2. (Slavic grammar) A verb of motion whose motion is multidirectional (as opposed to unidirectional) or indirect, or whose action is repeated or in a series (iterative), instead of being a single completed action; always imperfective in aspect, even with prefixes that are normally associated with the perfective aspect (eg. Polish przybiegać). Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-abstract_verb-en-noun-kV4PYUR6 Disambiguation of Linguistics: 10 90 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 90 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (type of verb): абстрактен глагол (abstrakten glagol) [masculine] (Bulgarian), აბსტრაქტული ზმნა (absṭrakṭuli zmna) (Georgian), verb abstract [neuter] (Romanian), разнонапра́вленный глаго́л (raznonaprávlennyj glagól) [masculine] (Russian), абстра́ктный глаго́л (abstráktnyj glagól) [masculine] (Russian)
Disambiguation of 'type of verb': 54 46

Inflected forms

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