defective verb

Moreover, if the future does not exist (defective verbs) neither will the conditional.

With famine and a Constitutional theory of defective verbs going on, all other excitement is conceivable.

Sometimes known as a defective verb, impersonal verbs are conjugated in the third person only.

Defective verbs cannot be conjugated in certain tenses, aspects, or moods.

Defective verbs have a W or Y as the last root consonant.

Welsh has a handful of defective verbs, a number of which are archaic or literary.

A defective verb is a verb that lacks some grammatical conjugation.

Morris Halle called this defective verb paradigm an example of an accidental gap.

Defective verbs are verbs that are conjugated in only some instances.

On the other hand modal verbs (such as can and must) are defective verbs, being used only in a limited number of forms.

(The defective verb beware has no simple present indicative, although it can be used in the subjunctive.)

Some grammarians treat these as different defective verbs, while others consider them a single word with stem allomorphy.

Therefore, the defective verb ōdī means, "I hate."

In most cases, a synonym for the defective verb must be used instead (i.e. "to be able to").

In English, defective verbs generally show no agreement for person or number, they include the modal verbs: can, may, shall, will, must, should, ought.

A few irregular or defective verbs (meminisse 'remember') used this form as their only imperative.

These defective verbs' principal parts are given in vocabulary with the indicative perfect in the first person and the perfect active infinitive.

It is occasionally used in common speech conjugated, usually with a few common defective verbs in the Negative Mood.

Latin has defective verbs that possess forms only in the perfect system; such verbs have no present tense forms whatsoever.

Because of that dualism, some grammars (chiefly Serbian ones) treat jesam as a defective verb having only present tense.

In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb with an incomplete conjugation, or which cannot be used in some other way that normal verbs can.

Note also the defective verb beware, which lacks indicative forms, but has a present subjunctive: (that) I beware...

This verb type is quite similar to the defective verb type "'ráma/yírmi"'.

The active and passive participles of derived defective verbs consistently are of the -in and -an declensions, respectively.

The stems of these verbs end in a consonant + р (/r/), except for the defective verb ща.