Although in Dutch, this verb retains its primary meaning of "stand", it is also used in an auxiliary-like function that only has a secondary meaning of "standing", for example: "ik sta te koken" ("I am cooking", literally "I stand to cook"). When it is not a full copula (it can normally only be used as an auxiliary with another verb), it does have shades of meaning that resemble that of the Italian "sto cucinando" ("I am cooking"). The intransitive verbs "zitten" ("to sit"), "liggen" ("to lie") and "lopen" ("to walk/run") are used in similar ways.