Re: Different types of roots; temporary/permanent stative verbs?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 5, 2001, 0:36 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> I'm also wondering about different ways of actually *defining* the
> difference -- how fleeting does something have to be to be "temporary," and
> how long-lived to be "permanent"? Of course, there can be some flexibility
> and irregularity -- in Spanish you say <estar muerto> as if the dead are
> only temporarily dead :)
Actually, the difference is more like ser = inherent characteristic;
estar = condition. In _está muerto_, being dead is seen as the
condition that the person is in, not an inherent part of who they are.
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