Sentence examples for frequentative from inspiring English sources
noun
Refers to 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.
There are really no differences in the older morphological features between Lithuanian and Latvian if one does not take into account innovations such as the Latvian debitive verb form (man ir jāmācās "I must study" or "it is necessary for me to study") and the Lithuanian frequentative past (jie eidavo "they used to go").
Sometimes they continue Latin infixes, such as the frequentative (compare jactāre for jacere 'to throw,' Italian gettare, French jeter, Catalan gitar, etc).; sometimes they add semantically to the root meaning (compare pejorative Italian lavoracchiare 'to slack off' from lavorare 'to work,' French criailler 'to bawl' from crier 'to cry').
In contrast to Latvian, Lithuanian also has a frequentative past tense e.g., kir̃sdavau "I used to cut, strike".
