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Lilitika Dictionary
copula
These verbs (and sometimes suffixes) indicate that some noun being affected (for verbs, the sentence's subject; for adjective-forming suffices, the noun which the adjective affects) is being identified with some other term (for verbs, the subject complement; for adjective-forming suffices, the affixed noun or clause).

The following dictionary entries are tagged copula:


novhé v. To keep being (intransitive, atelic).
thahé v. To become.
–uvé suf. To be ~ (N to V.) Note that nouns ending in -pu will be shortened to -bé instead of -puvé.
–uví suf. ~-being (N to A).
v. To be.
veshé v. (a) To experience; (b) to be (without agency).