11. The following are examples of the two kinds of stative verb conjugation in Toluca Otomi: 12. The copulas conjugate like stative verbs , but the existential verbs conjugate like action verbs. 13. By that definition, stative verbs act on themes, and dynamic verbs act on patients. 14. Apma uses stative verbs in many of the situations where adjectives would be used in English. 15. "' linguists sometimes prefer to use the terms static or stative verb to describe them. 16. Like the perfective verbs, stative verbs were tenseless, and described a state without reference to time. 17. In some cases, its only function is to make a sentence predicated with a stative verb more polite. 18. One set of morphemes indicates the transitive action verbs " or " the subject of stative verbs . 19. States and qualities are generally expressed using stative verbs that do not require the verb " to be ". 20. A word class that refers to properties or states has been described either as adjectives or as stative verbs .
