depictive adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •Of or pertaining to depiction. noun1 •A grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun in relation to the action of a verb.In this chapter, I address both the semantics of the Case-marking opposition in depictives in the East Slavic languages and also the syntax of depictive secondary predication in general. — 2007 formsdepictives