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substantive verb

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

Syllables
sub-stan-tive verb
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

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).

Inflected Forms

substantive verbs (plural)

Questions

What does substantive verb mean?
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).

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