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Definition of Duratives
1. durative [n] - See also: durative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duratives
Literary usage of Duratives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"Gradually the durative idea overshadowed the perfective meaning, so that these
verbs are now felt as duratives. In the South, however, sein, which was once ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The possibility of unskillful and Improper construction of a reservoir which is
not yet completed cannot be considered in estimating duratives to adjacent ..."
3. Indian Village Site and Cemetery Near Madisonville, Ohio by Earnest Albert Hooton, Charles Clark Willoughby (1920)
"... for the present is found composed of the nominal pronoun and the particle -ka
or -kah suffixed to the stem. These may be called " duratives ":l Mittel, ..."
4. The German Language: Outlines of Its Development by Tobias Johann Casjen Diekhoff (1914)
"Imperfective verbs, also called duratives, express the action in its continuance,
as going on. The English developed a special compound conjugation, ..."
5. Introduction to the Study of Language: A Critical Survey of the History and by Berthold Delbrueck (1882)
"... the Indo-European probably possessed at first six momentary sounds [momentane
Laute], viz., three surds and three sonants; six consonantal duratives ..."
6. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry ; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter (1899)
"... duratives of the acid amides, in which the =ir-g an amid and ¡mid-group, whose
hydrogen atoms are ..."
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