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intransitive::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
| Type of | verb |
intransitive::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | intransitiveness, intransitivity |
Examples of intransitive
intransitive
Suffixes are also used to indicate transitive, intransitive, and imperative verbs.
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A stative verb is often intransitive, while a corresponding one would be transitive.
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Unlike the direct passive, the indirect passive may be used with intransitive verbs.
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Further, some verbs may be idiomatically transitive, while, technically, intransitive.
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The term is used to contrast intransitive verbs, which do not have objects.
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Verbs that can be used in an intransitive or transitive way are called ambitransitive.
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An ergative verb is a verb which can be either intransitive or transitive.
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Indeed, the intransitive form of an ergative verb almost suggests that there is no agent.
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In other words, unergatives are truly intransitive, ergatives are not.
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- Designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object
- Intransitive verb: a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object
- (intransitivity) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb
- In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb that is associated with only one noun or noun phrase. The number of noun phrases associated with a verb is known in linguistics as its valency, and so an intransitive verb is also called a univalent verb. ...
- A word describing a verb that has no direct object
- Verbs continue to need to take whatever case they take, whether they're operating in the active or the passive, so a passive sentence with an intransitive verb in Latin does not have a subject in the nominative. ...
- Not able to be crossed
