Definition of inchoative. Meaning of inchoative. Synonyms of inchoative

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Definition of inchoative

inchoative
Inceptive In*cep"tive, a. Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative. -- In*cep"tive*ly, adv.
Inchoative
Inchoative In*cho"a*tive (?; 277), a. [L. inchoativus, incohativus: cf. F. inchoatif.] Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. ``Some inchoative or imperfect rays.' --W. Montagu. -- n. An inchoative verb. See Inceptive.

Meaning of inchoative from wikipedia

- tenses to form past inchoative, frequentative past inchoative and ****ure inchoative, all used in Lithuanian. In Russian, inchoatives are regularly derived...
- An inchoative verb, sometimes called an "inceptive" verb, shows a process of beginning or becoming. Productive inchoative affixes exist in several languages...
- an article on "inchoate", but its sister project Wiktionary does: Read the Wiktionary entry "inchoate" You can also: Search for Inchoate in Wikipedia to...
- An inchoate offense, preliminary crime, inchoate crime or incomplete crime is a crime of preparing for or s****ing to commit another crime. The most common...
- structure.) There are two types of change-of-state predicates: inchoative and causative. Inchoative verbs are intransitive, meaning that they occur without a...
- express the entrance into a state. This is called inchoative aspect. The simple past is sometimes inchoative. For example, the present-tense verb in the sentence...
- beginning an action, changing into a condition, an inchoative marker. Compare Latin verbs with similar inchoative SC markers nosco " get to know" from gno-sco...
- get (inchoative) "Tom got angry." go "The man went crazy;" "Tom went bald;" "the food went bad;" "the mistake went unnoticed" grow (inchoative) "Tom...
- languages to use a reflexive marker to signal the inchoative member of an alternating pair of verbs. Inchoative verbs in German are marked either by the reflexive...
- sleeping. Inchoative tenses are not a part of common Lithuanian speech, their use is limited to literary language and even there only past inchoative tense...