noun🔗Share(grammar) Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish."While English lacks true frequentative verbs, the professor explained that a series of "kept coughing" in the sentence "He kept coughing" expresses a similar meaning to what a single frequentative verb form might convey in a language like Latin. "grammarlanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗Share(grammar) Serving to express repetition of an action.""Crackle" is an English frequentative verb derived from "crack"."grammarlanguagelinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
