inchoative

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Synonyms: inchoate, inchoation, incitative, incerative, incubative, inchoatives

Antonyms: inchoate, inchoation, incitative, incerative, incubative, inchoatives

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Adjective

1. [[initial|Initial]]; as yet [[unformed]]; [[inchoate]].
2. {{lb|en|grammar}} [[aspectual|Aspectually]] indicating that a state is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
3. In [[Catalan]], being a member of a class of third-conjugation verbs (e.g. {{m|ca|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. {{m|ca|serveixo}}).

Noun

1. {{lb|en|grammar}} An inchoative construction.

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