deriv LSK ETT STT aSTA ALPH OLDHOMEPAGE NEWHOMEPAGE
Verbs and fakeverbs are said to show nothing when they neither show the doer nor show the object. Only objectless verbs can do this, because sUtra laHkarmaNic... teaches that when a transitive root does not show the doer, it must show the object.
Examples —
Asyate आस्यते "sit happens", "sitting is taking place"
When the sentence expresses the doer of such a verb, it must take third ending by kartRkaraN....
Asyate mayA आस्यते मया "I am sitting"
The grammar jargon word for "when it shows nothing" is /bhAve, that can also be translated as "when it means the action" or "when it means a state". the word is used in that sense in sUtras —
and others.