BBC英语学习-英语中的静态动词

Verbs of the mind:

believe	mean	suppose
forget	realise	understand
know	remember	doubt

Verbs of the senses - often used with 'can':

hear	see	smell
taste	touch

Other verbs:

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).

Vocabulary:

daft (adj, informal): stupid or silly