"stative verb" meaning in English

See stative verb in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: stative verbs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} stative verb (plural stative verbs)
  1. (grammar) A verb which generally expresses a state rather than an action or activity. Not normally found in a continuous inflection. Wikipedia link: stative verb Categories (topical): Grammar Translations (Translations): statief werkwoord [neuter] (Dutch), statiiviverbi (Finnish), oloverbi (Finnish), verbe d’état [masculine] (French), Zustandsverb [neuter] (German), czasownik stanowy [masculine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for stative verb meaning in English (2.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stative verbs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stative verb (plural stative verbs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Verbs",
          "orig": "en:Verbs",
          "parents": [
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: dynamic verb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verb which generally expresses a state rather than an action or activity. Not normally found in a continuous inflection."
      ],
      "id": "en-stative_verb-en-noun-qBSzaUQd",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "continuous",
          "continuous"
        ],
        [
          "inflection",
          "inflection"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A verb which generally expresses a state rather than an action or activity. Not normally found in a continuous inflection."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "statief werkwoord"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "statiiviverbi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "oloverbi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "verbe d’état"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Zustandsverb"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "czasownik stanowy"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "stative verb"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stative verb"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stative verbs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "stative verb (plural stative verbs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Grammar",
        "en:Verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: dynamic verb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verb which generally expresses a state rather than an action or activity. Not normally found in a continuous inflection."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "continuous",
          "continuous"
        ],
        [
          "inflection",
          "inflection"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A verb which generally expresses a state rather than an action or activity. Not normally found in a continuous inflection."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "stative verb"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "statief werkwoord"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "statiiviverbi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "oloverbi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "verbe d’état"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Zustandsverb"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "czasownik stanowy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stative verb"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.