Editing Defective verb (section)

{{Short description|Verb with incomplete conjugation}}
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In [[linguistics]], a '''defective verb''' is a [[verb]] that either lacks a [[grammatical conjugation|conjugated]] form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain grammatical [[grammatical tense|tenses]], [[grammatical aspect|aspects]], [[grammatical person|persons]], [[grammatical gender|genders]], or [[grammatical mood|moods]] that the majority of verbs or a "normal" or regular verb in a particular language can be conjugated for{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}. That is to say, a defective verb lacks forms that most verbs in a particular language have.