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substantive verb

substantive verb noun: 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).

Noun

substantive verb (plural substantive verbs)

  1. 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).

Forms of substantive verb

pluralsubstantive verbs

Questions about substantive verb

What does substantive verb mean?
Substantive verb means 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).
What part of speech is substantive verb?
Substantive verb is a noun.
What is the plural of substantive verb?
The plural of substantive verb is substantive verbs.

Words near substantive verb in the dictionary

  1. substantive genitive
  2. substantive genitives
  3. substantive law
  4. substantive noun
  5. substantive nouns
  6. substantive verb
  7. substantive verbs
  8. substantived
  9. substantively
  10. substantiveness
  11. substantives

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