EGAVE

inchoative

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Meaning

  1. adjective Initial; as yet unformed; inchoate.
  2. adjective Aspectually indicating that a state is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
  3. adjective In Catalan, being a member of a class of third-conjugation verbs (e.g. servir) in which a syllable -eix- (or otherwise depending on dialect), derived from the Latin inchoative but now without meaning, is inserted into certain conjugations (e.g. serveixo).
  4. noun An inchoative construction.

Similar words

immature formative inchoactive inchoate incipient inceptive initiatory inceptual initiative nascent

Often followed by

verbs and alternation verb meaning or aspect reading suffix

Word family

inchoatively inchoatives

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