"substantive verb" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: substantive verbs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} substantive verb (plural substantive verbs)
  1. (linguistics) In the Goidelic languages, a copular verb meaning “to be” that is used with predicates that are prepositional phrases, adverbs, or adjectives, but not with predicates that are noun phrases: Old Irish at·tá, Irish bí (present tá), Scottish Gaelic bi (present tha), Manx bee (present ta). Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (copular verb in the Goidelic languages): briathar substainteach [masculine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-substantive_verb-en-noun-~kcFLVWW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

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