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substantive verbs

substantive verbs is the plural of substantive verb.

Meaning of substantive verb

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).

Questions about substantive verbs

What is substantive verbs the plural of?
Substantive verbs is the plural of substantive verb.

Words near substantive verbs in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substantive verbs (page history and authors); substantive verb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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