frequentative
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频繁的,经常性的,频繁性,频繁地
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the frequentative aspect.
- : a verb in the frequentative aspect, as wrestle from wrest.
Examples
According to Skeat jingle, “a frequentative verb from the base jink,” is allied to chink, and chink is “an imitative word”.
Startling, moving suddenly; the frequentative form of starting, which Chaucer preferred when repeating this same line in his Kn.
They are to be compared with the Latin verbs frequentative, as factitare instead of facere, cursitare instead of currere, etc.
The Russian verb has commonly a simple and a frequentative future.
Some roots are reduplicated wholly or in part with a frequentative meaning, and there are traces of gemination of radicals.
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