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How to pronounce inceptive in English?

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Synonyms inchoative

Examples of inceptive

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Not all verbs with inchoative infixes have retained their inceptive meaning.
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During this era of both urbanisation and industrialisation Batavia was at the inceptive stage of most modernising developments in the colony.
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The perfective, imperfective, completive, inceptive, punctual, iterative, and habitual are sometimes considered aspects in English as well.
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Being one of the inceptive members of Filiki Etaireia, after the outbreak of the War, he dedicated his fortune in order to organise and finance guerilla troops.
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When an intransitive verb comes at the end of a sentence, then the only way to determine whether the le at the end of the sentence is perfective or inceptive is to look at the context.
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  • Inchoative aspect (abbreviated or) is a grammatical aspect, referring to the beginning of an action or state. It can be found in conservative Indo-European languages such as Latin and Lithuanian, and also in Balto-Finnic languages. ...
  • Beginning; of or relating to inception; aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning
  • The originating, pre-transformative phase of reality development