The eventive mood is used in the Finnish epic poem Kalevala.

A stretched verb is a complex predicate composed of a light verb and an eventive noun.

By contrast the canonical passives, representing an action or event, may then be called dynamic or eventive passives.

Kun, glossed as 'EV', is an eventive marker, marking a verb referring to something that actually occurred or is occurring.

Some linguists draw a distinction between static (or stative) passive voice and dynamic (or eventive) passive voice in some languages.

Each verbal lexeme, especially eventive verbs, took on its own "root aspect", ostensibly according to the semantics of the root, although there are numerous unexplained surprises.

The perfective and imperfective aspect classes are together known as eventive, or verbs that depict events, to distinguish them from stative (verbs that depict a state of being).

These eventive aspects were originally not marked for tense; however, the option arose to mark current action with the (later grammaticalized) addition of the hic-et-nunc (Latin "here and now") particle -i to the personal endings of verbs of imperfective aspect.

This created a tense contrast among eventive verbs: the unmarked past (durative imperfect tense and non-durative, punctiliar aorist) vs. the present tense marked with terminal affixation of -i in the singular or -s in the plural.

Sentences of the second type are sometimes confused with the passive voice, and in some treatments are considered to be a type of passive - a stative or static passive, in contrast to the dynamic or eventive passive exemplified by the first sentence.