 Verbal nouns are true nouns in morphology and inherent properties, having gender, case and their occurrence in what are prepositional phrases, and in which non-verbal nouns are also found.Verbal nouns carry verbal semantic and syntactic force in such core verbal constructions as a result of their meaning content, as do other nouns found in such constructions, such as tha e na thost ""he is quiet, he stays silent"", literally ""he is in his silence"", which mirrors the stative usage found in tha e na shuidhe ""he is sitting, he sits"", literally ""he is in his sitting"".This is similar to words such as ""bed"" in English and ""letto"" in Italian when used in prepositional phrases such as ""in bed"" and ""a letto"" ""in bed"", where ""bed"" and ""letto"" express a stative meaning.