care | feel | hate | |
like | loathe | love | |
need | prefer | want |
own | have | possess |
believe | mean | suppose | |
forget | realise | understand | know | remember | doubt |
hear | see | smell | |
taste | touch |
contain | depend | matter |
Some of these stative verbs can be used in the continuous form but their meaning will change. For example: To think: Do you think so? (Stative - Is that your opinion? Is that the state of your belief?) He's thinking about his friends in Poland (Dynamic - The action of thinking. His friends are in his thoughts, in his mind right now but he might be thinking of something else soon). To have: He has got brown eyes (Stative - He possesses brown eyes. The colour is unlikely to change). He's having a pint of beer (Dynamic - The action of drinking. He might be drinking something else soon). To see: I don't see what you mean. (Stative - I don't understand what you mean). She is seeing him next week. (Dynamic - She is meeting him). |
Daft (adj, informal): stupid or silly |