inchoative

Expressing the beginning of an action or state; in grammar, inchoative verbs do this: get dark, fall ill.

The simple past is sometimes inchoative.

Not all verbs with inchoative infixes have retained their inceptive meaning.

Other affixes express inchoative aspect, instrumental function or purpose.

The Latin language uses the infix -sc- to show inchoative force.

This is called inchoative aspect.

There is no passive equivalent apart from the inchoative suffix -iĝi mentioned above.

The English language can approximate the inchoative aspect through the verbs "to become" or "to get" combined with an adjective.

An inchoative verb, sometimes called an "inceptive" verb, shows a process of beginning or becoming.

There are five categories of tense or aspect: habitual/progressive, stative, past, inchoative and future.

This is called ingressive aorist (also inceptive or inchoative).

The same suffix is used in inchoative verbs in both Ancient Greek and Latin.

(The four inchoative constructions, periphrastic)

In Swedish, inchoative verbs end in -na.

The perfective aspect often includes a contextual variation similar to an inchoative aspect or verb, and expresses the beginning of a state.

A range of Zulu verbs indicate a change of state or a process, which tends towards some final goal (cf. inchoative verbs).

Eventually a work-around using the inchoative suffix -iĝ- as a mediopassive became common as a way to avoid the debate entirely.

In eastern Karelian dialects the exessive case (-nta) is found; it specifically refers to inchoative changes.

In certain parts of the second conjugation there is also a suffix -iss- between the stem and the ending, which derives historically from an inchoative suffix.

Present tense, indicative mood, inchoative aspect: io sto per fare (English: I'm about to do)

Productive inchoative infixes exist in several languages, including Latin and Ancient Greek, and consequently some Romance languages.

Stat is an auxiliary for inchoative aspect when combined with the verbal suffix -in: gon stat plein "gonna start playing".

Transitivity is manipulated by suffixes forming transitive verbs with applicative or causative meaning or intransitives with passive or inchoative meanings.

Greek also uses the inchoative suffix -sk-, although it does not always indicate inchoative meaning.

Possibilities include reflexive, inchoative, reversive, intensifier, and distributive morphemes, instrumental, causative, or dative case markers, and also incorporated noun stems.