Examples
Examples of sentences with stative verbs:
- he has always loved it.
- I am tired.
- I have two children.
- I like the color blue.
- I think they want something to eat.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident...
- The case contains six bottles.
- This would imply that we didn't care.
In languages where the copula is a verb, it is a stative verb, as is the case in English be. Some other English stative verbs are believe, know, seem, and have. All these in general denote states rather than actions. However, verbs like have and be, which are usually stative, can be dynamic in certain situations. Think is stative when it means "believe", but not when it means "consider". The following are not stative:
- You are being silly.
- She is having a baby.
- Quiet please, I am thinking.
Propositions that are expressed in most Indo-European languages by noun qualifiers (such as adjectives) are instead expressed by stative verbs in many other languages. In Japanese, so-called i-adjectives are in fact best analyzed as intransitive stative verbs (for example, takai alone means "is high/expensive", and samukunakatta means was not cold).
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