Words / closed class

verbo defectivo

A verb that lacks part of its paradigm, so that certain cells have no form at all rather than an irregular one.

cls.spa.verbo-defectivo — closed, members enumerated one by one.

haberThe auxiliary of the compound tenses, and separately an impersonal verb asserting existence that has one cell per tense and agrees with nothing.inherent
solerThe defective verb marking that an event recurs, having only some tenses and never standing alone.inherent

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