Stative verb

The Zustandsverb (also: static, tripod verb) designate a state, an insistence, a pass, something not -altering - so something permanent, which the grammatical subject ( set item ) relative is (property, location of persons, objects ). The Zustandsverb, as well as action verb and Tätigkeitsverb, a semantically specific subclass of part of speech Verb

Examples

Example words

• Be
• Remain
• Live
• Lie
• Stand
• Live
• Sit

Sample sentences

• Peter is tired.
• The sheet is on the table.
• I live in the Black Forest.

Swell

• Helmut Glück ( eds): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. , 2000.
• Günter Drosdowski ( eds): Duden grammar of the German language 1984, p 92 ( footnotes and other references).
• The small Duden. 1988, pp. 88f.

• Part of speech