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Apredicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammaticaladjective; that is, it predicates (qualifies or informs about the properties of its argument). It is a special kind ofstative verb.
Many languages do not use the present forms of the verb "to be" to separate an adjective from its noun: instead, these forms of the verb "to be" are understood as part of the adjective.Egyptian uses this structure: "my mouth is red" is written as "red my mouth" (/dSr=f r=i/). Other languages to use this structure include theNorthwest Caucasian languages, theThai language,Indonesian, theEast Slavic languages, theSemitic languages, someNilotic languages and theAthabaskan languages. Many adjectives inChinese andJapanese also behave like this.
In theAkkadian languages, the "predicative" (also called the "permansive" or "stative") is a set of pronominal inflections used to convert noun stems into effective sentences, so that the formšarrāku is a single word more or less equivalent to either of the sentencesšarrum anāku "I am king" oršarratum anāku "I am queen".[1]
