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Intransitive verb
Rabu, 2026-05-20 10:11:32

In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object. That lack of an object distinguishes...

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Intransitive (disambiguation)
Selasa, 2024-05-14 05:15:22

intransitive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intransitive can mean: the opposite of transitive, see Transitivity (disambiguation) Intransitivity,...

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Intransitive game
Kamis, 2026-05-28 00:00:37

An intransitive or non-transitive game is a zero-sum game in which pairwise competitions between the strategies contain a cycle. If strategy A beats strategy...

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Intransitivity
Kamis, 2026-01-08 08:28:44

In mathematics, intransitivity (sometimes called nontransitivity) is a property of binary relations that are not transitive relations. That is, we can...

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Intransitive dice
Minggu, 2026-05-31 19:43:26

A set of dice is intransitive (or nontransitive) if it contains n > 2 {\displaystyle n>2} dice, X 1 , X 2 , . . . , X n {\displaystyle X_{1},X_{2},......

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Ergative–absolutive alignment
Rabu, 2026-05-27 10:06:46

alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb, and differently from...

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Active–stative alignment
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 03:37:42

split intransitive alignment or semantic alignment) is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the sole argument ("subject") of an intransitive clause...

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Verb
Selasa, 2026-05-12 10:20:36

infinitives, participles or gerunds. An intransitive verb is one that does not have a direct object. Intransitive verbs may be followed by an adverb (a...

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Circassian verb transitivity
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:23:42

Verbs in Circassian languages can be distinguished between transitivity (intransitive, transitive and ditransitive), and valency (monovalent, bivalent and...

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Lexical semantics
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 11:35:21

the door going from being implicitly open to closed. (1b) gives the intransitive use of the verb close, with no explicit mention of the causer, but (1c)...

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Greenlandic language
Minggu, 2026-03-08 21:32:53

morphosyntactic alignment is ergative, treating both the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb in one way, but the subject...

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Morphosyntactic alignment
Kamis, 2025-09-11 03:10:24

transitive verbs like the dog chased the cat, and the single argument of intransitive verbs like the cat ran away. English has a subject, which merges the...

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Intransitive case
Kamis, 2026-01-15 04:13:06

In grammar, the intransitive case (abbreviated intr), also denominated passive case or patient case, is a grammatical case used in some languages to mark...

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Labile verb
Kamis, 2026-04-09 21:58:50

transitively and intransitively, with the requirement that the direct object of its transitive use corresponds to the subject of its intransitive use, as in...

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Pohnpeian language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:37:46

wring/be wrung", intransitive wengidek "to be twisted" transitive widinge "to deceive", intransitive widing "to deceive/be deceived", intransitive widingek "to...

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Transitive verb
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 14:18:58

for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which do not entail transitive objects, for example, 'arose' in...

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Transitivity (grammar)
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 04:47:35

transitive objects. English grammar makes a binary distinction between intransitive verbs (e.g. arrive, belong, or die, which do not denote a transitive...

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Causative
Senin, 2026-05-25 11:39:21

secondarily intransitive. Other verbs like this include smash and extend. Other verbs, such as trip in (3) go the other way: they are primarily intransitive and...

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Mam language
Senin, 2026-04-20 00:07:38

dependent suffix. Two of England's examples of intransitive and transitive verb complexes are shown below. Intransitive verb complex with directional ma REC chin...

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Absolutive case
Senin, 2025-12-15 11:35:28

ergative–absolutive languages that would generally be the subjects of intransitive verbs or the objects of transitive verbs in the translational equivalents...

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Valency (linguistics)
Rabu, 2026-02-11 22:35:27

There are several types of valency: impersonal (= avalent) it's raining intransitive (monovalent/monadic) he sleeps monotransitive (divalent/dyadic) he kicks...

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Passive voice
Jumat, 2026-05-29 10:43:10

process"), because it syntactically turns a transitive sense into an intransitive sense. This is not always the case; for example in Japanese a passive-voice...

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Ambitransitive verb
Senin, 2026-01-19 05:13:32

An ambitransitive verb is a verb that is both intransitive and transitive. This verb may or may not require a direct object. English has many ambitransitive...

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Tripartite alignment
Jumat, 2025-11-07 04:33:47

morphosyntactic alignment in which the main argument ('subject') of an intransitive verb, the agent argument ('subject') of a transitive verb, and the patient...

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Intransitive Recordings
Sabtu, 2025-11-08 10:30:00

Intransitive Recordings was an independent record label for experimental music, founded by the artist Howard Stelzer. Intransitive published electro-acoustic...

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Kʼicheʼ language
Jumat, 2026-04-17 12:58:25

markers are used on verbs to agree with the transitive object or the intransitive subject (absolutive case). Kʼicheʼ also has two second person formal...

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Crow language
Selasa, 2026-03-03 19:49:38

transitive verbs, and from active intransitive verbs. ii – 'instrumental nominalizer': Derived from active transitive and intransitive verbs, and from transitive...

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Nominative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:21:47

transitive verb or a voluntary subject of an intransitive verb but not for an involuntary subject of an intransitive verb. Since such languages are a relatively...

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Kartvelian languages
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:34:45

tripersonal. Unipersonal verbs have only a subject and so are always intransitive. Bipersonal verbs have a subject and one object, which can be direct...

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Sumerian language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 11:47:23

concluded that instead of speaking about intransitive and transitive verbs, it may be better to speak only of intransitive and transitive constructions in Sumerian...

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Nominative–accusative alignment
Selasa, 2026-04-28 05:59:49

alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like subjects of transitive verbs, and are distinguished...

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Applicative voice
Rabu, 2025-09-10 10:03:31

include Nuxalk, Ubykh, and Ainu. Prototypically, applicatives apply to intransitive verbs. They can also be called "advancements" or "object promotion" because...

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Salishan languages
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:15:35

they can change a verb from intransitive to transitive. For example, in the sentence 'I got scared.', 'scared' is intransitive. However, with the addition...

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Georgian conjugation
Minggu, 2026-03-08 09:45:45

of are the following: Georgian has four classes of verbs: transitive, intransitive, medial and indirect verbs. Each class has its own set of rules of conjugation...

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Object (grammar)
Kamis, 2026-01-29 15:05:03

verb classes: Ergative and object-deletion verbs can be transitive or intransitive, as indicated in the following table: The distinction drawn here between...

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Unergative verb
Senin, 2026-05-25 10:48:03

In linguistics, an unergative verb is an intransitive verb that takes a subject argument which is a semantic agent, and actively initiates, and takes responsibility...

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Hurrian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:56:59

suffixes also include the suffix -t, which indicates intransitivity, but occurs only in truly intransitive forms, not in antipassive ones; in the present,...

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Ho-Chunk language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:00:47

waa-. Ho-Chunk's intransitive verbs fall into three main types: intransitive active verbs, intransitive stative verbs, and intransitive 'third person-only'...

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Georgian grammar
Selasa, 2026-02-03 09:32:16

those of a nominative–accusative language. That is, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are treated alike when it comes...

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Transitive relation
Minggu, 2025-12-28 18:02:14

x is the successor number of y is both intransitive and antitransitive. Unexpected examples of intransitivity arise in situations such as political questions...

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Keres language
Selasa, 2026-03-31 00:33:55

that take no object are expressed via intransitive verbs. In Indo-European languages like English, all intransitive verbs behave similarly ('They...

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Central Siberian Yupik language
Senin, 2026-02-02 08:43:20

(N) Ordinary noun bases (intransitive, transitive) Independent pronoun bases (intransitive) Demonstrative bases (D) (intransitive) Adjectival noun bases...

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Grammatical conjugation
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:20:49

classified as: -n class (open, intransitive/semi-transitive) -l class (open, transitive/ditransitive) -r class (closed, intransitive) Agreement (linguistics)...

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Burzio's generalization
Minggu, 2026-03-08 14:16:42

Burzio's generalization recognizes two classes of intransitive verbs: With unaccusative intransitive verbs (e.g., fall), the single argument bears the...

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Ergative case
Jumat, 2026-03-27 21:48:57

nominative–accusative alignment in which subjects of transitive and intransitive sentences behave similarly, and differently from objects of transitive...

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Transitive alignment
Jumat, 2025-11-21 08:15:54

arguments of a transitive verb, but not with the single argument of an intransitive verb. Such a situation, which is quite rare among the world's languages...

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Adjective
Rabu, 2026-05-20 17:23:10

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Kashmiri language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:34:08

subject of an intransitive verb is marked. However, in sentences constructed in any other tense, or in past tense sentences with intransitive verbs, a nominative-dative...

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Subject pronoun
Jumat, 2025-08-15 07:28:50

for transitive and intransitive verbs: an ergative case pronoun for transitive verbs and an absolutive case pronoun for intransitive verbs. In English...

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Reflexive verb
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 03:03:32

nonexistent. "Intransitive" forms (also known as "impersonal reflexive" or "mediopassive") are obtained by attaching the reflexive pronoun to intransitive verbs...

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Antipassive voice
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 17:08:08

mother.' In the corresponding antipassive clause, which is formally intransitive, the verb takes the antipassive suffix -on. The original object "your...

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English prepositions
Jumat, 2025-08-29 14:37:40

predicative complement, and no complement at all, in the case of an intransitive verb. Similarly, an adjective phrase may consist of an adjective alone...

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Halkomelem
Selasa, 2026-01-06 00:39:12

the voice system Transitive: /-t/ /-nəxʷ/ /-x/ "transitive" Intransitive: /-əm/ "intransitive", /-éls/ "activity" (compare pə́n "get buried", pə́nət "bury...

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Proto-Circassian language
Minggu, 2026-06-07 21:27:41

vs. тхэ-н (to write generally, intransitive) ды-н (to sew something, transitive) vs. дэ-н (to sew generally, intransitive) шхы-н (to eat something, transitive)...

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Split ergativity
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 19:08:41

clause with a transitive verb and the experiencer in a clause with an intransitive verb in the same way grammatically. If the language uses case markers...

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Northeast Caucasian languages
Minggu, 2026-06-07 22:02:16

morphology. This means that objects of transitive sentences and subjects of intransitive sentences both fall into a single grammatical case known as the absolutive...

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Äiwoo language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:44:46

distinguished: intransitive, transitive, and semitransitive. The main difference between these three verbal clauses is that intransitives concern only one...

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List of English prepositions
Rabu, 2025-10-01 03:40:41

complements. Prepositions marked with an asterisk can be used transitively or intransitively; that is, they can take noun phrase complements (e.g., he was in the...

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American and British English grammatical differences
Minggu, 2026-05-17 00:48:18

surrounds it (e.g., "fit[-past] X into Y"); and for the spatial senses (both intransitive and transitive) of having been matching with respect to contour, with...

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Swampy Cree language
Rabu, 2026-05-06 09:01:49

In fact, Swampy Cree has no adjectives at all. Instead, it has the intransitive form of verbs. For example, instead of saying "he is strong", in Cree...

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Impersonal passive voice
Jumat, 2025-08-15 13:29:38

the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero. The impersonal passive deletes the subject of an intransitive verb. In place of the...

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Tzeltal language
Rabu, 2026-03-25 07:31:01

"to be lost" (intransitive verb) /kʼàhkʼ/ "fire" (noun) or "hot" (adjective) /kʼòk/ "to cut" (transitive verb) or "to be cut" (intransitive verb) /mès/...

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Genitive case
Jumat, 2026-04-03 09:53:00

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Lexical verb
Senin, 2025-12-15 04:52:37

lexical verb. Lexical verbs are categorized into five categories: copular, intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, and ambitransitive. The descriptor lexical...

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Finite verb
Senin, 2025-12-15 04:50:04

languages or the English imperative). A finite transitive verb or a finite intransitive verb can function as the root of an independent clause. Finite verbs...

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Bangime language
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 16:22:14

Bangime (/ˌbæŋɡiˈmeɪ/; bàŋɡí–mɛ̀, or, in full, Bàŋgɛ́rí-mɛ̀) is a language isolate spoken by 3,500 ethnic Dogon in seven villages in southern Mali, who...

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Pronoun
Jumat, 2026-05-01 05:46:30

subcategorization or valency, rather like the distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs—determiners take a noun phrase complement like transitive verbs...

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Avá-Canoeiro language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 09:50:20

descriptive intransitive verbs can be treated as a subclass of intransitive verbs; the copular verb eko ~ iko is inflected like active intransitive verbs and...

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Kayapo language
Kamis, 2025-11-06 13:24:01

language: -rV (the most common option, found in many transitive and intransitive verbs) and its allomorph -n (following front nasal vowels), -nh (found...

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Language
Senin, 2026-06-08 04:14:35

cursed John". A predicate that can only take a single argument is called intransitive, while a predicate that can take two arguments is called transitive....

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Infinitive
Selasa, 2026-01-06 03:28:47

often used when defining other verbs, e.g. amble (verb) ambled; ambling intransitive verb to walk slowly to stroll without a particular aim For further detail...

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East Cree
Selasa, 2026-05-19 12:55:49

Animate (VTA), Verb Intransitive Inanimate (VII), Verb Transitive Inanimate (VTI), Verb Animate Intransitive (VAI). Verb Intransitive Inanimate (VII) only...

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Luganda
Senin, 2026-05-11 20:39:18

okuliika 'to be edible' The intransitive conversive modification reverses the meaning of an intransitive verb and leaves it intransitive, or reverses the meaning...

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Anticausative verb
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 17:10:37

An anticausative verb (abbreviated antic) is an intransitive verb that shows an event affecting its subject, while giving no semantic or syntactic indication...

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Yukaghir languages
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 02:39:58

structures. The most spectacular feature of TY and KY grammar is the split intransitive alignment system based on discourse-pragmatic features. In absence of...

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Nawat grammar
Jumat, 2026-05-22 09:07:01

verbs belong clearly to one of two major formal types: intransitive or transitive. Here, intransitive verbs are those that cannot have an object and corresponding...

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Thao language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:44:26

perfective or completive aspect -in : patient focus ish- : found most with intransitive verbs (uncommon prefix) ka- : 'to make an X', 'two times' (with reduplication)...

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Maléku language
Kamis, 2026-05-14 19:01:54

order of the elements is variable in transitive and in intransitive clauses. In intransitive clauses the common order is SV, but it is also possible...

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Latin
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 18:03:23

with the supine. The fourth principal part is sometimes omitted for intransitive verbs, but strictly in Latin, they can be made passive if they are used...

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Modern Lhasa Tibetan grammar
Kamis, 2025-11-06 07:14:58

the unmarked form of the noun, which may be used as the subject of an intransitive verb, the object of a transitive verb or the experiencer of an emotion...

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Urartian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 08:13:57

that is usually transitive can be converted to intransitivity with the suffix -ul- before the intransitive valency marker: aš-ul-a-bə 'was occupied' (vs...

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Nen language (Papuan)
Jumat, 2026-01-02 02:12:53

lexicalization patterns in its verbs. It has very few intransitive verbs, and where some verbs would be intransitive in most other languages, Nen has a class of...

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Rock paper scissors
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:15:46

paper scissors (also known by several other names and word orders) is an intransitive hand game, usually played between two people, in which each player simultaneously...

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Pingelapese language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:53:56

Pingelapese language exhibits four primary sentence types: transitive, intransitive, existential, and equational sentences. Transitive sentences employ verbs...

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Makassarese language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:41:43

come ≡DEF PREP Japan 'the person who came from Japan.' In Makassarese intransitive clauses, the 'absolutive' enclitic (=ABS) is used to cross-reference...

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Central Alaskan Yupʼik
Rabu, 2025-07-23 07:20:02

of a given mood may depend on the transitivity of the verb (e.g., the intransitive form of the participial mood suffix is usually -lriar, but when this...

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Unaccusative verb
Senin, 2026-05-25 10:48:08

In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb that takes a subject argument which is not a semantic agent, and does not actively initiate...

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Part of speech
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 01:10:44

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Nicobarese languages
Jumat, 2026-04-10 05:03:41

ergative (A) arguments is the norm, in Car Nicobarese the subjects (S) of intransitive predicates and the patients (P) of transitive predicates often receive...

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Mohegan-Pequot language
Senin, 2026-04-13 15:14:21

several forms. Independent verbs exist in four forms: inanimate intransitive, animate intransitive, transitive inanimate and transitive animate. There is also...

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Santali language
Kamis, 2026-04-23 14:58:52

of intransitive and intransitive-transitive verb roots will take -jɔn to form the Medio-passive voice. Transitive roots, transitive-intransitive roots...

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Dice
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:27:19

(review) – Method of review often used in Norway Intransitive dice – Game variations and descriptions of intransitive dice and their behaviour Quincunx – Pattern...

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Perfect (grammar)
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 23:45:22

work. The construction could then be generalized to be used also with intransitive verbs. A vestige of the original interpretation is preserved in some...

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Araki language
Kamis, 2026-02-12 23:28:58

negation. From a syntactic point of view, Araki contrasts intransitive with transitive verbs. Intransitive verbs never take either object NPs or transitive suffixes...

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Hupa language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:02:40

along the following three parameters: active vs. neuter, transitive vs. intransitive, and personal vs. impersonal. Active themes are inflected for aspect-mode...

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Subject (grammar)
Selasa, 2026-03-03 18:42:33

Greenlandic, in which the form of a noun or pronoun when the verb is intransitive (he ran) is different from when the verb is transitive (he broke the...

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Regular and irregular verbs
Selasa, 2026-05-26 11:20:51

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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English phrasal verbs
Kamis, 2026-05-28 06:36:35

discrete entries in modern dictionaries. These verbs can be transitive or intransitive. If they are transitive, i.e. if they have an object, the particle may...

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Iñupiaq language
Jumat, 2026-04-17 17:51:07

tendency for the subject of an intransitive verb (marked by the absolutive case) to precede the verb. The subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a...

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Hindustani grammar
Kamis, 2026-03-12 22:30:19

transitives, while intransitive jānā occurs mostly with intransitives; a compound of a transitive and jānā will be grammatically intransitive as jānā is. Finally...

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List of grammatical cases
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:59:35

Example Found in Absolutive case (1) patient, experiencer; subject of an intransitive verb and direct object of a transitive verb he pushed the door and it...

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Game balance
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 22:44:17

the player to receive more and more useful game elements. In case of intransitivity given A beats B and B beats C, A does not automatically beat C. On the...

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Coverb
Senin, 2025-12-15 03:51:54

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Kurdish grammar
Senin, 2026-01-12 03:43:33

Secondary stems consist of a root + suffixes that indicate transitivity, intransitivity, and causativity. There are 3 tenses: present, past, and future. There...

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Beyblade
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:48:06

Defense, Stamina, and Balance types. The first three of those types have intransitive effectiveness, with Defense generally intended to be effective against...

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Arapaho language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 08:17:58

morphemes as follows /be'-ee/ 'to be red', intransitive and takes an inanimate subject /be'-eihi/ 'to be red', intransitive and takes an animate subject Concrete...

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Yucatec Maya language
Minggu, 2026-05-17 12:38:26

strategy, which is a 'fluid S system' in the typology of Dixon (1994) where intransitive subjects are encoded like agents or patients based upon a number of semantic...

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Innu language
Rabu, 2025-08-27 22:55:34

into four classes based on their transitivity: animate intransitive (AI), inanimate intransitive (II), transitive inanimate (TI), and transitive animate...

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English grammar
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 15:23:43

some sentences, playing the role of a dummy subject, normally of an intransitive verb. The "logical subject" of the verb then appears as a complement...

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Interjection
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:32:25

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Hudna
Sabtu, 2025-07-26 05:27:05

defined it as: "hadana: he grew quiet. hadina: he quieted (transitive or intransitive). haadana: he made peace with. The noun from each of these is hudna."[citation...

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Mortlockese language
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 23:52:26

inalienable possession), oblique nouns, locational nouns, and partitive nouns. Intransitive verbs in Mortlockese are described by two separate classes. The first...

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Classical Kʼicheʼ
Rabu, 2025-10-22 20:18:39

it normally uses the same grammatical marking for the subject of an intransitive verb and the direct object of a transitive verb, whereas the subject...

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Rock paper scissors (disambiguation)
Minggu, 2026-02-15 05:56:00

free dictionary. Rock paper scissors, or paper scissors rock, is an intransitive hand game played between two or more people. Rock, Paper, Scissors or...

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Separable verb
Senin, 2024-11-25 05:16:17

ondergaan, past tense ging onder, past participle ondergegaan (separable, intransitive): to go under (to sink; to drown). ondergaan, past tense onderging, past...

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Coeur d'Alene language
Rabu, 2026-05-20 03:01:03

discussed below. The basic format of an intransitive thought as Doak identifies can be found below: The intransitive subjects of Coeur d'Alene appear as clitics...

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Arawakan languages
Kamis, 2026-05-21 06:19:30

split-intransitive alignment systems of subject and object cross-referencing on the verb. The agentive arguments of both transitive and intransitive verbs...

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Voice (grammar)
Kamis, 2026-04-30 15:57:03

demotes the object of transitive verbs, and promotes the actor to an intransitive subject. This voice is very common among ergative–absolutive languages...

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English interrogative words
Selasa, 2026-03-24 13:22:03

determiner. Which is a pronoun or determiner. Where is an intransitive preposition. When is an intransitive preposition. How is usually an adverb (e.g., How rusty...

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Burushaski
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:43:35

forms regular intransitives. Examples: i-phalt-i-mi 'he breaks it open' (transitive) du-phalt-as 'to break open, to explode' (intransitive) A master's thesis...

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Stative verb
Senin, 2026-06-08 06:04:06

stative and dynamic verbs can be correlated with: the distinction between intransitive and transitive the possibility of using the progressive aspect with the...

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Flat adverb
Minggu, 2025-11-16 17:11:22

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Sentence clause structure
Rabu, 2026-05-27 13:26:15

are composed of five clause patterns:[citation needed] Subject + Verb (intransitive) Example: She runs. Subject + Verb (transitive) + Object Example: She...

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Perfective aspect
Kamis, 2026-03-05 04:06:38

the verb is transitive, or intransitive but volitional. So, *huā jānā is not valid construction. marnā (to die) is intransitive but it's a volitional action...

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Ossetian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 05:56:27

past stem. The endings, however, are different for intransitive and transitive verbs. The intransitive endings are: The construction appears to be, in origin...

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Arabic
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:31:51

denominative verbs (verbs built from nouns); Form V is the equivalent used for intransitive denominatives. The associated participles and verbal nouns of a verb...

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Ainu language
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:13:40

head comes at the end. Verbs, which are inherently either transitive or intransitive, accept various derivational affixes. Ainu does not have grammatical...

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Sirenik language
Selasa, 2026-05-05 17:10:29

Siberian Yupik Eskimo Ergative–absolutive language Transitive verb Intransitive verb Polysynthetic language Incorporation (linguistics) Language death...

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Present perfect
Rabu, 2026-02-11 04:57:11

Portuguese). Generally, the verbs that take to be as an auxiliary are intransitive verbs denoting motion or change of state (e.g. to arrive, to go, to fall)...

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Baniwa of Içana
Jumat, 2026-05-22 10:49:52

intransitive clauses can be illustrated below: Transitive: ri-kapa-ni 'He sees him/it' Active Intransitive: ri-emhani 'He walks' Stative Intransitive:...

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Nominalized adjective
Selasa, 2026-01-27 23:12:27

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Sociative case
Minggu, 2025-07-13 09:13:02

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Mapudungun
Kamis, 2026-04-23 05:33:53

verb, and the object tends to follow (A–V–O order); the subject of an intransitive clause tends to follow the verb (V–S order). Nouns are grouped in two...

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Hindustani verbs
Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:02:33

noun/adjective and a verb. Complex verbs are of two types: transitive and intransitive. The transitive verbs are obtained by combining nouns/adjectives with...

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Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language
Rabu, 2026-04-22 01:17:50

as transitive or intransitive. Some verbs that have a direct object when they are translated into English are, in reality, intransitive verbs where the...

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Passé composé
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 23:47:51

(they (m)/they (f) saw) The verbs that use être as an auxiliary verb are intransitive verbs that usually indicate motion or change of state. Since some of...

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Qʼeqchiʼ language
Minggu, 2026-02-15 23:21:08

object. When a set B affix is attached to an intransitive verb, it indicates the subject of the intransitive verb. When an affix from set A is prefixed...

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Linguistic typology
Rabu, 2026-04-15 00:49:59

with cases, the classification depends on whether the subject (S) of an intransitive verb has the same case as the agent (A) or the patient (P) of a transitive...

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Tupi language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:02:11

object nucleus (in fact, they cannot be used alone). Tupi had a split-intransitive grammatical alignment. Verbs were preceded by pronouns, which could be...

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Adyghe verbs
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:45:58

Color Legend for Arguments: Absolutive (Abs): Marks the Subject of intransitive verbs and Direct Object of transitive verbs. Ergative (Erg): Marks the...

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Dutch book arguments
Selasa, 2026-03-03 02:50:38

intransitivities or other features that allow people to be Dutch-booked. However, if people are somewhat sophisticated about their intransitivities and/or...

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Nias language
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:24:47

position Absolutive pronouns are used: as the S argument of independent intransitive and nominal clauses (in the southern dialect, only in realis mood) Mofökhö...

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Persian verbs
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 10:27:32

is made by adding -e to the second stem. This participle is active in intransitive verbs, e.g. rafte 'gone', but passive in transitive verbs, e.g. nevešte...

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Squamish language
Senin, 2026-03-23 19:30:52

typically begin with a predicate noun, but may also begin with a transitive, intransitive, or passive verb. The table below summarizes the general order of elements...

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Chocho language
Minggu, 2026-03-15 13:21:13

morphosyntactically between subjects of willful actions whether they are transitive or intransitive and subjects of unwillful actions. This results in her analysing Chocho...

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Thematic vowel
Minggu, 2026-04-12 19:43:25

instrumental case if it were inactive. Furthermore, the subject and object of intransitive verbs seemed to have the form of the absolutive (i.e. an asigmatic case)...

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Ditransitive verb
Senin, 2025-12-15 11:12:53

with the Agent and Patient of monotransitive verbs and the Subject of intransitive verbs in several ways, which are not predicted by whether the language...

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Algonquian languages
Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:24:57

transitive verbs with an inanimate object ("TI"), intransitive verbs with an animate subject ("AI"), and intransitive verbs with an inanimate subject ("II"). A...

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Chatino languages
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 03:28:25

Chatino languages have some regular alternations between transitive and intransitive verbs. In general this change is shown by altering the first consonant...

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Apudessive case
Selasa, 2025-08-12 11:06:13

causative construction with the apudessive case. It is also possible for intransitive verbs in combination with a causative construction to be marked with...

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Dutch grammar
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:32:54

verbs (with only one object, direct or indirect) or even as intransitives. Whether an intransitive use is unergative or unaccusative depends both on the verb...

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Homograph
Selasa, 2026-04-21 17:11:11

is the addition of the prefix /*ɦ/, which turns transitive verbs into intransitive or passives in some cases: Another pattern is the use of a /*s/ suffix...

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Okurigana
Minggu, 2025-11-30 06:52:01

[intransitive]" 下 (o) 下りる (o-riru) "to get off/to descend" and 下ろす (o-rosu) "to let off (transitive)" 下 (sa) 下がる (sa-garu) "to dangle (intransitive)"...

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Entity–relationship model
Minggu, 2026-04-12 16:13:52

noun Entity type Proper noun Entity Transitive verb Relationship type Intransitive verb Attribute type Adjective Attribute for entity Adverb Attribute for...

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Nez Perce language
Rabu, 2026-04-08 12:44:08

case-marking strategy: a transitive subject, a transitive object, and an intransitive subject are each marked differently. It is thus an example of the very...

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Modern Hebrew grammar
Selasa, 2026-03-10 04:47:07

/paˈtaħ//נִפְתַּח /nifˈtaħ/ (to open, transitive/intransitive) and גָּמַר /ɡaˈmar//נִגְמַר /niɡˈmar/ (to end, transitive/intransitive). Other relationships between a paa'al...

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Strange loop
Senin, 2026-04-13 10:56:25

similar concept is metamorphic code. Efron's dice are four dice that are intransitive under gambler's preference. I.e., the dice are ordered A > B > C > D...

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Tsez language
Jumat, 2026-04-10 05:19:13

which means that it makes no distinction between the subject of an intransitive sentence and the object of a transitive one. Both are in the unmarked...

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Chickasaw language
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 01:58:45

This series is used to indicate stative intransitive subjects and direct objects. Example with stative intransitive subjects, lhinko "to be fat": Example...

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Circassian languages
Minggu, 2026-05-31 19:01:59

ergative–absolutive case marking system while using the same verb "break" in both intransitive and transitive forms: Here, "table" has the absolutive case mark -р /-r/...

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Derung language
Kamis, 2026-01-01 17:58:52

direct-inverse person-marking hierarchy, apophony, and tone changes. Intransitive verbs are conjugated to agree with the subject in person and number....

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Japanese grammar
Minggu, 2026-04-05 22:53:45

something begins an activity), and the intransitive hajimaru (始まる, an activity begins). Note: Some intransitive verbs (usually verbs of motion) take what...

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Unami language
Selasa, 2026-03-17 04:15:50

ntəntala·wsí·ne·n ('that is where we live [our lives]') from the animate intransitive stem /tala·wəsi·/. Prefixes are mutually exclusive and are selected based...

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Orientative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:23:35

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Intrative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:18:25

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Czech language
Senin, 2026-05-11 16:48:33

does), its word order is flexible. As a pro-drop language, in Czech an intransitive sentence can consist of only a verb; information about its subject is...

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Ottoman Turkish
Senin, 2026-05-25 00:21:48

Classes Active Transitive or Intransitive Transitive or Intransitive Intransitive Determinate Indeterminate Reciprocal Affirmative Simple تپ (tep) kick...

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English verbs
Senin, 2026-01-19 03:27:35

direct object. Verbs used without objects are called intransitive. Both transitive and intransitive verbs may also have additional complements that are...

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Bororo language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:28:18

dance"), but each has an exclusive set of suffixes. "Intransitive" suffixes naturally apply to intransitive verbs, for which there is only one core argument...

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Andative and venitive
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 19:36:13

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Chʼol language
Jumat, 2026-03-06 04:21:40

intransitive verbs. The suffix -is causativizes some intransitive verbs. The suffix -b derives ditransitive verbs, and -ty derives some intransitive verbs...

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Powhatan language
Selasa, 2026-04-21 01:21:38

class of verbs. The chart below presents the affixes taken by animate intransitive verbs. The first and second singular persons usually take the ne-/ ke-...

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Prolative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 04:37:10

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Tense–aspect–mood
Kamis, 2026-03-12 19:35:55

using one of the above simple forms of "to have" (or of "to be" for intransitive verbs of motion) plus a past participle. These forms are used to shift...

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Direct case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:02:20

relations: both the agent and patient of transitive verbs and the argument of intransitive verbs, though not always at the same time. The direct case contrasts...

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Tmesis
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 16:38:17

possible with contrastive intonation. Such tmesis can also occur with an intransitive phrasal verb, typically with an adjunct. For example: Come back tomorrow...

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Sign language
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 01:13:11

transitive verbs which allow such modification. For a similar group of intransitive verbs (especially motion verbs), it is the subject which is incorporated...

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Symmetric group
Sabtu, 2025-10-25 03:16:18

subgroups of Sn fall into three classes: the intransitive, the imprimitive, and the primitive. The intransitive maximal subgroups are exactly those of the...

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Reciprocal pronoun
Rabu, 2026-03-25 09:29:55

of a syntactic predicate, whereas in Chichewa, the reciprocal is an intransitive verbal affix -an. However, the meaning of the reciprocal is the same...

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Chiwere language
Kamis, 2026-04-16 06:12:31

mono-, duo- or polysyllabic, and either agent (transitive) or patient (intransitive). Most verb stems are passive. Altogether, the Chiwere verb complex is...

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Guarani language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 22:01:58

consists of active transitive verbs as well as both active and stative intransitive verbs. To indicate the subject, active verbs use prefixes. In stative...

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Possessive determiner
Minggu, 2025-06-01 04:15:04

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Grammatical case
Jumat, 2026-06-05 16:05:21

Ergative–accusative (or tripartite): The argument (subject) of an intransitive verb is in its own case (the intransitive case), separate from that of the agent (subject)...

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Accusative case
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:45:04

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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S'gaw Karen language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 13:42:48

between intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive verbs. Transitive and ditransitive verbs require one and two objects, respectively, while intransitive verbs...

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Malay grammar
Jumat, 2026-05-15 22:34:09

object is not necessary) mêng-ajar = to teach di-ajar = being taught (intransitive) di-ajar-kan = being taught (transitive) mêmpêl-ajar-i = to learn, to...

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Nuxalk language
Rabu, 2026-05-20 19:10:49

the proposition. It inflects for the person and number of one (in the intransitive paradigm) or two (in the transitive paradigm) participants. E.g. ƛ̓ikm-Ø...

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Latin interjections
Jumat, 2026-02-27 21:19:08

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Nynorsk
Minggu, 2026-05-03 11:06:25

conjugation will not have an object. The strongly conjugated verbs are intransitive. The system of ergative verbs is more pronounced in Nynorsk than in Bokmål...

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Maipure language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 07:00:01

prefix followed by /ia/ or /ja/, and occur as "topicalized subjects of intransitive, active verbs". Set II pronouns are made up of /ka/ or /ke/, apparently...

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Italian conjugation
Rabu, 2026-04-29 22:33:49

bevuto; stare and essere both have stato. All transitive verbs and most intransitive verbs form the present perfect by combining the auxiliary verb avere...

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Basque verbs
Kamis, 2026-03-26 16:07:07

hypothetical participles based on the finite stems, referring to *edin (the intransitive aorist auxiliary) and *ezan (the transitive aorist auxiliary). There...

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Dyirbal language
Minggu, 2026-01-18 22:00:41

(transitive) vs. "The glass broke." (intransitive). Since Dyirbal has fewer lexemes, a morpheme -rri- is used as an intransitive derivational suffix. Thus the...

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Fox language
Minggu, 2026-05-31 14:53:42

into transitive and intransitive; transitive involves two parties (i.e "I give it to you!" / "Kemînêwene!"), while intransitive is one party (i.e "You're...

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Naʼvi language
Jumat, 2026-04-03 18:21:58

has such an object, as in "he kicks the ball"; and the subject of an intransitive clause, which does not have an object, as in "he runs". An object is...

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Ho language
Minggu, 2026-05-10 23:13:36

put in this verb template: Verb stem + (Aspect marker) + (Transitive/Intransitive marker) + (Object pronoun) + (Mood marker) + (Subject pronoun) The verb...

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Syntactic bootstrapping
Jumat, 2025-10-24 07:57:27

the verb with the agent. Children who heard the scene described by an intransitive clause associated the subject with either the agent or the patient. This...

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Chinookan languages
Senin, 2026-04-20 22:43:30

absolutive to the patient of a transitive or the single argument of an intransitive, and the dative to the indirect object. Reflexive prefixes can serve...

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Akkadian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 01:00:16

Correspondence I.1 G PaRiS the simple stem, used for transitive and intransitive verbs Arabic stem I (fa'ala) and Hebrew pa'al II.1 D PuRRuS gemination...

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Nuristani Kalasha language
Kamis, 2026-02-12 23:32:26

morphologically unmarked 'direct' case used for the subjects of all intransitive verbs and an 'oblique' case used for all indirect objects and benefactives...

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Indonesian language
Senin, 2026-06-01 23:41:23

active) ajaran = teachings belajar = to learn (intransitive, active) diajar = to be taught (intransitive) diajari = to be taught (transitive, locative)...

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Tundra Yukaghir language
Minggu, 2026-04-19 02:22:33

subordination and very few coordinate structures. Yukaghir has a split intransitive alignment system based on discourse-pragmatic features. In absence of...

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Grammatical tense
Senin, 2026-05-11 14:04:35

respective intransitive and transitive suffixes indicating a repeated action. The postverbal morpheme li and liria are respectively intransitive and transitive...

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Buginese language
Rabu, 2026-04-15 13:58:06

set, and three bound sets: The enclitic set is used with subjects of intransitive verbs, and objects of transitive verbs. The proclitic set is with subjects...

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Pairwise comparison (psychology)
Jumat, 2025-07-04 12:21:27

Pairwise comparison generally is any process of comparing entities in pairs to judge which of each entity is preferred, or has a greater amount of some...

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Lezgian language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 18:04:41

Absolutive case (basic form of the word, no ending): marks the subject of an intransitive verb and the direct object of a transitive sentence. It is also used...

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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Kamis, 2026-03-05 10:48:01

the intransitive verb sleep is satisfied as it combines with the subject colorless green ideas, satisfying the requirement that an intransitive verb...

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Polypersonal agreement
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:42:53

the meaning 'my'. In Georgian this construction is very common with intransitive verbs; the possessive adjective (my, your, etc.) is omitted before the...

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Volition (linguistics)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 07:38:21

Transitive and intransitive action verb groups share common conceptual ground. Here is an example taken from Japanese. Intransitive 3a) おもちゃ omocha toy...

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Basque language
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:35:50

ergative-absolute alignment refers to a system in which the subject of an intransitive verb is treated similarly to the object of a transitive verb, while the...

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Savosavo language
Selasa, 2026-05-12 02:31:54

rami-li 'to shoot' Intransitive verb stems usually are without object marking. The suffix -vi can only be used on four intransitive verbs. When the suffix...

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Chukchi language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 19:12:24

cross-referenced in the verbal chain, and person agreement is very different in intransitive and transitive verbs. Person agreement is expressed with a complex system...

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Tsʼixa language
Senin, 2026-04-27 14:57:38

applicative that combines with intransitive and transitive verbs, where the suffix *-ma introduces beneficiaries. With intransitive verbs, -mà introduces a new...

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Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns
Rabu, 2026-05-27 23:39:57

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Salish–Spokane–Kalispel language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:37:03

specifically, the morphemes ¬–nt and –el', denote transitivity and intransitivity, respectively. Meaning, they show whether or not a verb takes a direct...

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Torres Strait Creole
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:46:36

normal sentence word order is the expected transitive S-V-O-X(-) and intransitive S-V-X(-), there is variation in the form of S-X-V(-O), such as where...

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Feed (Anderson novel)
Senin, 2026-05-18 04:52:08

dirty; (verb) to sully something or to get something dirty. to be with: (intransitive verb) to be ready and willing to participate. to do (something) slalom:...

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Swadesh list
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 15:36:20

(soil) cloud (not fog) smoke (noun, of fire) fire ash(es) burn (verb intransitive) path (1952: road, trail; not street) mountain (not hill) red (color)...

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Complement (linguistics)
Rabu, 2023-12-20 03:29:35

terminological distinction to the verb: Ed seemed quite competent: — complex-intransitive verb + predicative complement She considered Ed quite competent : — complex-transitive...

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History of the Hungarian language
Senin, 2026-04-06 21:01:42

The language developed its interesting features, the transitive and intransitive verb conjugations. (See Hungarian grammar (verbs).) Marked possessive...

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Ancient Greek verbs
Senin, 2026-03-16 16:26:23

usually intransitive, but can also be transitive. Often the middle endings make a transitive verb intransitive: παύομαι (paúomai) "I stop (intransitive)" ἵσταμαι...

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Blackfoot language
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 09:54:52

were cut off.' There are four verb categories in Blackfoot: intransitive inanimate, intransitive animate, transitive inanimate, and transitive animate. The...

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List of glossing abbreviations
Senin, 2026-01-19 14:56:50

argument), O or P (patient of transitive verb), S (single argument of intransitive verb), SA (Sa) and SP (Sp) or SO (So) (agent- and patient-like argument...

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Nonfinite verb
Senin, 2025-12-15 10:04:29

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Matis language
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 02:17:41

in the day). Matis is an ergative-absolutive language. The subject of intransitive and transitive verbs are marked in the same way. The agent is what stays...

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Modal verb
Rabu, 2026-01-28 00:44:13

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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German verbs
Selasa, 2026-03-24 15:13:30

hören, "to hear" – ge-hören (zu) "to belong (to)" brennen, "to burn" (intransitive), to be burning (stative verb) – ver-brennen (etwas), "to burn (something)"...

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Mass noun
Senin, 2026-05-25 15:44:48

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Classical Nahuatl grammar
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:19:35

typical optative second person subject prefix xi-. Verbs are either intransitive, taking only a subject, or transitive, taking both a subject and an object...

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Hungarian verbs
Minggu, 2026-05-03 06:34:07

form, i.e. "they are eating the apple." In fact, most -ik verbs are intransitive, and the context may clarify the question even if the subject is not...

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Transcendental realism
Selasa, 2024-04-30 07:53:57

or whether they know about the real world. This is described as the intransitive domain of knowledge. Reducing ontology to epistemology is referred to...

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Kho'ini dialect
Rabu, 2026-05-20 04:33:49

Present present stem + personal endings taj-em (I run) „ Preterite of intransitive verbs past stem (the stress falling on the last syllable of it) + the...

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Ojibwe grammar
Minggu, 2026-01-04 08:22:53

in the language, which differ based on whether they are transitive or intransitive and whether they take animate or inanimate subjects. These are the main...

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Zapotec languages
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 01:59:43

eaten', with the prefix /dug-/. In many other cases, the transitive-intransitive verb pairs are appropriately described as causative vs. noncausative...

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Marquis de Condorcet
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:28:02

Condorcet's paradox, which shows that majority preferences can become intransitive with three or more options – it is possible for a certain electorate...

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Possessive
Minggu, 2026-04-26 22:55:55

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Abkhaz language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:38:12

It has an ergative-absolutive typology, such that the subject of an intransitive verb functions identically to the object of a transitive verb. Notably...

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Latin declension
Minggu, 2026-05-17 18:04:09

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Kaqchikel language
Senin, 2026-05-18 23:37:40

that can take affixes. These classes are nouns, adjectives, adverbs, intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, and positionals. Positionals in this language...

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Gerundive
Senin, 2025-05-26 02:55:10

active or passive meaning, and therefore could be used with verbs in intransitive as well as transitive use. However, the great majority of gerundive forms...

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Allative case
Senin, 2026-04-27 23:04:37

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Chechen language
Selasa, 2026-05-05 04:37:48

would the subject, for intransitive verbs, or the object, with transitive verbs). Example of verbal agreement in intransitive clause with a composite...

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Active Directory
Kamis, 2026-06-04 11:15:17

can extend beyond two domains to other trusted domains in the forest. Intransitive trust A one way trust that does not extend beyond two domains. Explicit...

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Ilocano verbs
Minggu, 2024-09-29 04:53:10

phrase. According to Galvino (2000), the affixes in the Agent focus are Intransitive, because the verb form does not require another noun phrase to complete...

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Kosraean language
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 12:20:58

classified into transitive and intransitive verbs." Lee (1975) states that one way to tell if a verb is transitive or intransitive is to combine it with the...

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Personal pronoun
Kamis, 2026-01-08 09:55:33

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Political party
Senin, 2026-06-01 19:40:28

441–474. doi:10.1111/0952-1895.00141. McKelvey, Richard D. (1976). "Intransitivities in multidimensional voting bodies". Journal of Economic Theory. 12:...

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Roy Bhaskar
Selasa, 2026-04-28 20:48:28

world. That is described as the intransitive objects of knowledge. Bhaskar refers to the elimination of the intransitive objects of knowledge and thus the...

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Greenberg's linguistic universals
Kamis, 2026-05-07 22:39:06

the one which includes among its meanings that of the subject of the intransitive verb." "Where morphemes of both number and case are present and both...

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Reflexive pronoun
Kamis, 2026-04-02 21:00:16

Transitivity and valency Transitivity Intransitive verb Transitive verb Ambitransitive verb Valency Impersonal (Avalent) Intransitive verb (Monovalent) Monotransitive...

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Human branding
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 04:53:14

verbs: bærnan "to kindle" (transitive) and beornan "to be on fire" (intransitive), both from the Proto-Germanic root bren(wanan), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European...

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Kyle Bobby Dunn
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 17:24:00

Ghostly International) Intimate Rituals of Kyle Bobby Dunn (Ltd. CDR 2011, Intransitive Recordings) In Miserum Stercus (Ltd. vinyl LP 2012, Komino) A Chance...

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Recursion
Rabu, 2026-05-20 01:08:43

phrase meanings, verb phrase meanings, and others. It can also apply to intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, or ditransitive verbs. In order to provide a...

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Aramba language
Minggu, 2026-02-15 01:26:47

into three subtypes: transitive verbs, (inherently) intransitive verbs and derived intransitive verbs. Transitive verbs like -dren- 'pound' are inflected...

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Onondaga language
Jumat, 2026-02-27 11:53:18

simply learn for each intransitive verb whether it takes the agent or the patient series. There is an additional rule for the intransitive verbs that take the...

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Romagnol
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:42:55

speaker is not the second argument of the verb although Italian uses an intransitive construction. Impersonal verbs, which lack a canonical subject, in Romagnol...

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Tshangla language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 17:36:34

be called" in an intransitive sense. Similarly, lekpe means "to lick" in a transitive sense, but "to be licked" in an intransitive sense, with the agent...

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Songhay languages
Senin, 2025-12-08 03:32:58

(cf. Teso -r) which he takes to appear in the pronouns yer and wor, intransitive/passive -a (cf. Teso -o).[citation needed] The most striking of the Mande...

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Romani language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:49:22

in the nominalizer -ipen / -iben, and lose adjectival past-tense in intransitives (gelo, geli → geljas 'he/she went'). Other isoglosses (esp. demonstratives...

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Ojibwe language
Senin, 2026-04-20 12:44:49

word. Below are some examples of common Ojibwe words. Short list of intransitive verbs: waabi 'he/she sees' noondam 'he/she hears' bimose 'he/she walks'...

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Haida language
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 16:13:28

as bound possessive pronoun before dependent nouns and cliticized to intransitive verbs (that take an objective argument); long form used as bound possessive...

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Korku language
Senin, 2026-03-30 12:49:11

Subject–Object–Verb (SOV) word order. Adjectives are expressed verbally - as intransitive verbs - with the exception of a few cases in which a separate word occurs...

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Benefactive case
Senin, 2026-04-06 08:02:00

the verb bedde (to pray) requires the benefactive when it is used intransitively: Hä deiht sesch bedde (He is praying). Similarly, in French one can...

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Garden-path sentence
Kamis, 2026-05-14 18:58:40

initial ambiguity resulting from a "reduced relative with [a] potentially intransitive verb" ("The horse raced past the barn fell.") can be contrasted with...

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Proto-Algonquian language
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:38:39

transitive verbs with an inanimate object (TI), intransitive verbs with an animate subject (AI), and intransitive verbs with an inanimate subject (II). Transitive...

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Javanese language
Minggu, 2026-06-07 10:15:29

‘put in (into something)’ from mlebu ‘to enter’. When attached to an intransitive verb, the derived verb can be benefactive, e.g. jupukaké ‘take (for someone)’...

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Mah Meri language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:54:51

PST:PROX 1SG hide see 3 1SG 'After that, I hid, (lest) he see me.' For intransitive clauses in Mah Meri, both Subject-Verb (SV) and Verb-Subject (VS) orders...

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Quantifier (linguistics)
Minggu, 2026-02-15 19:13:59

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Lokono language
Kamis, 2026-05-07 17:42:13

verbs are sectioned into transitive, active transitive, and stative intransitive. A= Sa=cross referencing prefix O=So= cross referencing suffix In the...

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Article (grammar)
Selasa, 2026-05-19 13:44:48

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Dummy pronoun
Jumat, 2026-03-06 23:37:15

considered semantically impersonal even though it appears syntactically intransitive; in this view, the required it in "it is snowing" is a dummy word that...

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Grammatical number
Rabu, 2026-06-03 13:05:11

more minor example is Forest Enets, which has the nondual only in its intransitive third person imperative verbs. The nondual violates a proposed universal...

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Illative case
Minggu, 2026-05-17 00:49:01

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Verbal noun
Rabu, 2026-04-15 18:32:06

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Warrongo language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 18:14:55

unmarked by a suffix, for the nominative case (used for the subject of an intransitive verb) and the accusative case (used for the object of a transitive verb)...

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Edward Norton Lorenz
Jumat, 2026-04-17 02:46:59

climate change. Quaternary Research. Vol. 6. Link 1990 Can chaos and intransitivity lead to interannual variability? Tellus. Vol. 42A. Link 2005 Designing...

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Nheengatu
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 06:20:23

prefixes. Verbs in Nheengatu fall into three mutually exclusive categories: intransitive, transitive, and stative. By attaching verbal prefixes to these verbs...

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Coast Tsimshian dialect
Jumat, 2026-05-15 02:48:49

/hæj.mæː.dm/ "northeast wind" /n.læk/ "fireplace" /k’l.k’oːl/ plural of intransitive verb "dull" Consonant clusters are common. Schulenberg reports finding...

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Cheyenne language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 04:08:11

for each verb class. -e                Animate Intransitive (AI) -ó                Inanimate Intransitive (II) -o                Transitive Animate (TA)...

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Word order
Minggu, 2026-04-26 12:32:14

freer SV / VS order in intransitive clauses.[citation needed] Cases like this can be addressed by encoding transitive and intransitive clauses separately...

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Tati language (Iran)
Selasa, 2026-05-05 02:36:40

some evidence in this dialect, apart from past transitive verbs, some intransitive verbs are influenced by the ergative structure. The phonology is based...

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Dakota language
Minggu, 2026-05-31 14:11:30

action and is generalized as a concept. WapíȟyA "to boil things" Abstract intransitive; (wa-) Does not specify an object and is further generalized as a concept...

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Tiriyó language
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 01:25:42

the third-person pronouns. Pronouns can be subjects of transitive and intransitive sentences, as well as objects. However, pronouns cannot bear possessive...

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Northern Jê languages
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:46:42

transitive and intransitive verbs), *-ñ (found in some transitive verbs), as well as *-k, *-m, and *-c (found in a handful of intransitive verbs which take...

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Ergative
Rabu, 2018-12-19 01:47:47

the subject of an intransitive verb behaves like the object of a transitive verb Ergative verb, a verb whose subject when intransitive corresponds to its...

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Heaven Up Here
Sabtu, 2025-12-13 01:28:41

describes as "a blasting celebration of desire for desire's sake" and "pure intransitive exhilaration". The photograph used on the front and back cover of the...

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Hausa language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 14:16:55

(to buy) 3 -a, -i L-H(-L), H-L (rare) intransitive verbs shìga (to enter) 4 -ē H-L(-H), H-L(-L) mostly intransitive verbs expressing the completion of an...

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Indefinite pronoun
Jumat, 2025-11-07 06:53:36

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Kilawin
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 01:46:49

internal organs of the animal. However, for Ilocanos "kilawen" is an intransitive verb for food preparation that encompasses all raw and lightly cooked...

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Kabardian verbs
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:46:13

and how they interact to form verbs. Important: no я-/а- oblique in intransitive bivalent verbs. Kabardian distinguishes itself by not using я-/а- as...

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Pachacuti
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:01:02

documentation and was grammatically implausible, since the verb kuti – is an intransitive verb, and the chronicler's intended meaning for the word of "(he) who...

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Copula (linguistics)
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 03:14:52

words—according to their structure—are verbs. So not only (transitive, intransitive and so-called "stative") verbs but even nouns often behave like verbs...

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Xârâcùù
Selasa, 2026-05-05 01:22:46

suffix –ri, the causative fa-, the resultative/stative mê-, and the intransitivizer ù-. While transitive suffix do exist they are few and far between leaving...

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Shawnee language
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 23:12:10

early-morning 'you mustn't eat early in the morning' Independent Mode: Inanimate Intransitive (II): 3s → /-i/ → skwaaw-i 'it is red' 3p → /-a/ → kinwaaw-a 'those are...

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Elamite language
Senin, 2026-06-08 06:23:10

conjugation II expresses a perfective aspect, hence usually past tense, and an intransitive or passive voice, whereas conjugation III expresses an imperfective non-past...

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Mingrelian grammar
Selasa, 2025-09-16 08:01:42

Monovalent verbs are represented only by subjective person and are always intransitive. Bivalent verbs together with subject have also one object (direct or...

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Italian language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:11:00

while "to be" is used in the case of verbs of motion and some other intransitive verbs (è andato, è stato: 'he has gone, he has been'). "To be" may be...

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Tzotzil language
Selasa, 2025-11-11 11:40:29

agreement system in Tzotzil is ergative-absolutive, the subject of an intransitive verb and the direct object of a transitive verb are marked by the same...

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Fuck
Minggu, 2026-06-07 05:17:14

flexible role in English grammar, functioning as both a transitive and intransitive verb, and as an adjective, adverb, noun, and interjection. Although the...

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Standard Average European
Rabu, 2026-02-04 01:48:23

me") a passive construction formed with a passive participle plus an intransitive copula-like verb (e.g. English I am known); a prominence of anticausative...

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Gilbertese language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:35:28

outcome or truth is not yet known. While they share many similarities with intransitive verbs, there are a few patterns that can be observed among adjectives...

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Ikpeng language
Senin, 2026-04-20 22:59:02

change both transitive verb sentences and intransitive verb sentences to transitive causative verbs and intransitive causative verbs respectively. The morpheme...

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Mekéns language
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 13:21:53

use of the intransitivizer, and is formed by applying the intransitivizer prefix "e-" to transitive verb forms, thus creating intransitive verb stems...

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Cognate object
Minggu, 2026-02-01 01:01:05

related to the verb. More specifically, the verb is one that is ordinarily intransitive (lacking any object), and the cognate object is simply the verb's noun...

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Muna language
Selasa, 2025-05-27 13:01:47

fly' (irrealis) Intransitive verbs mostly employ a-class or ao-class prefixes. As a general rule, a-class verbs are dynamic intransitive verbs, while ao-class...

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Go (verb)
Minggu, 2026-04-26 23:24:47

had prevailed in the transitive senses, whereas wente, restricted to intransitive senses, rivalled and replaced go's older past tense, yede/yode. Proto-Germanic...

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Rajasthani languages
Senin, 2026-05-25 02:47:45

of case marking systems: nominative – accusative: transitive (A) and intransitive (S) subjects have similar case marking, different from that of transitive...

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Juǀʼhoan language
Kamis, 2026-04-23 06:12:19

verbs take the irregular plural form when the object is plural, whereas intransitive verbs take the irregular plural when the subject is plural. Some irregulars...

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Timbisha language
Rabu, 2026-02-11 16:00:41

suffixes. Valence is marked with both prefixes and suffixes. Some common intransitive verbs have suppletive forms for singular or plural subjects and some...

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Ustaše
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 23:24:05

its brutalism. The word ustaša (plural: ustaše) is derived from the intransitive verb ustati (Croatian for rise up). "Pučki-ustaša" (German: Landsturm)...

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Awabakal language
Senin, 2026-06-08 04:51:29

referring terms and are in these cases similar to nouns, like adjectives or intransitive verbs/predicative verb-adjective phrases. They can be declined into nominal...

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Mayan languages
Minggu, 2026-05-31 01:07:17

languages are ergative in their alignment. This means that the subject of an intransitive verb is treated similarly to the object of a transitive verb, but differently...

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Jemez language
Rabu, 2026-02-18 14:35:00

prefix or the intransitive prefix, depending on if it is being used in an active sentence or a passive. Verbs that are classified as intransitive do not have...

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Futile game
Kamis, 2026-05-07 08:35:08

though not all variants are futile games. The term does not apply to intransitive games, such as iterated prisoner's dilemma or rock–paper–scissors, in...

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Old Frisian
Senin, 2026-06-08 01:08:18

relationship. Particularly with verbs of motion, wesa was also used in some intransitive contexts to express the perfect or pluperfect to express changes in state...

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Sayula Popoluca
Jumat, 2026-05-29 04:33:54

Intransitive independent 'walk' imperfective perfective future yoꞌy -p -w -áh 1sg tʉ- tʉyóꞌyp tʉyóꞌyw tʉyòꞌyáh 2sg mi- miyóꞌyp miyóꞌyw miyòꞌyáh 3rd Ø yóꞌyp...

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Erromintxela language
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 13:45:23

marking follows the ergative–absolutive pattern where the subject of an intransitive verb is in the absolutive case (which is unmarked), the same case being...

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Semelai language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 12:44:45

ergative argument of transitive verbs and highly volitional argument of intransitive, human activity-denoting verbs. Semelai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...

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Please
Rabu, 2026-02-11 19:50:32

magic word". "Please" is a shortening of the phrase, if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from if it please you, which is in turn a calque...

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List of people from Boca Raton
Rabu, 2026-05-20 08:58:26

rock band Creed Howard Stelzer, avant-garde composer and founder of Intransitive Recordings Anna Tatishvili, tennis player Horia Tecău, tennis player...

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Chinantecan languages
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:41:09

mother.3SG.POSS V S {} O 'Cesar remembers his mother' VS order with intransitive verb: gɨ¹ PERF   ngɨ²¹ walk.3.PERF V seʼ³⁴ Cesar S do¹ DEM   gɨ¹ ngɨ²¹...

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Hidatsa language
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 06:42:38

transitive verbs, but they may also be used as the nominative of certain intransitive verbs in an active sense, such as 'amaki' ("he sits") and 'adamaki' ("you...

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Verb conjugations in Circassian
Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:46:43

arguments they take, and in which cases — into monovalent intransitive, bivalent intransitive, bivalent transitive and trivalent ditransitive types (with...

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Pontianak Teochew
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 05:20:32

(還沒) in Mandarin. It grammatically negates transitive, intransitive unaccusative, or intransitive unergative predicates. For example: 我 Ua I 未 bue not have...

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Apurinã language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 09:32:50

and intransitive verbs. The examples below show the use of the causative marker being used in both transitive and intransitive verbs. Intransitive: the...

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Relative clause
Senin, 2026-04-27 22:07:53

In fact, since so-called i-adjectives in Japanese can be analyzed as intransitive stative verbs,[citation needed] it can be argued that the structure of...

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Cushitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 13:13:10

for nominative case when it functions as subject in a transitive or intransitive sentence. Possession is usually expressed by genitive case marking of...

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Serial verb construction
Rabu, 2026-01-21 07:18:06

Southeast Asian languages, when a transitive verb is followed by an intransitive verb, the object of the combined verb may be understood as the object...

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Yeꞌkuana language
Minggu, 2026-04-26 05:13:51

but each of the two types of intransitive verbs (termed UP and UA) has their own suffix that they take. Intransitive verbs of type UP can take the suffixes...

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Southern Yukaghir language
Minggu, 2026-04-19 02:21:44

subordination and very few coordinate structures. Yukaghir has a split intransitive alignment system based on discourse-pragmatic features. In absence of...

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Akuntsu language
Senin, 2026-05-18 10:01:45

and pipi ("feet"). Verbs in Akuntsú are divided into transitive and intransitive verbs. In general, they differ in that only transitive verbs have objects...

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Sum of angles of a triangle
Selasa, 2026-04-07 16:05:25

axiom, Proclus' axiom (the parallelism, defined as non-intersection, is intransitive in an hyperbolic plane), the equidistance postulate (the points on one...

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Translative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 04:44:23

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Deponent verb
Selasa, 2026-05-12 16:40:06

there are a few, such as vertō 'I turn (transitive)' and vertor 'I turn (intransitive)' which have both active and deponent forms. Examples are hortārī ('to...

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Transitivity
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 05:50:27

is related to C Syllogism, a related notion in propositional logic Intransitivity, properties of binary relations in mathematics Arc-transitive graph...

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Lie algebroid
Senin, 2026-05-25 00:53:33

(hence also Lie algebras) are totally intransitive. This actually exhaust completely the list of totally intransitive Lie algebroids: indeed, if A {\displaystyle...

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Catherine Christer Hennix
Rabu, 2026-05-13 00:18:43

"Notes on Intuitionisitc Modal Music" (1976) "Intensional Logics for Intransitive Experiences" (1979) "Parmenides on Intensional Logics" (1979) "Poetry...

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Slavic vocabulary
Rabu, 2026-03-04 01:55:14

"pant, gasp" "manage"; "know" (obs.) "to smell", transitive "to smell, intransitive" "hunt, chase, prowl, course" "hunt, fish, catch, snare" "cut, slice...

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Patient (grammar)
Selasa, 2026-03-10 06:36:14

transitive verbs, and the particle ga (hiragana が) when used with inactive intransitive verbs or adjectives. Although Modern English does not mark grammatical...

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Wat
Kamis, 2026-03-05 02:59:51

more loosely, even for ruins of ancient temples. As a transitive or intransitive verb, wat means to measure, to take measurements; compare templum, from...

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Function word
Selasa, 2026-02-24 15:59:28

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Iranian peoples
Kamis, 2026-04-30 00:06:19

structure (the difference between the conjugation of transitive and intransitive verbs) existing in Lari can be mentioned as such an example. The speech...

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K-T-B
Jumat, 2026-03-06 22:57:36

other" (masculine) iktataba اِكْتَتَبَ or اكتتب "he is registered" (intransitive) or "he contributed (a money quantity to sth.)" (ditransitive) (the first...

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Manglish
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 11:54:00

pull or pulling out as a transitive verb, or to become detached as an intransitive verb.) "gostan" – reverse a vehicle, probably from the nautical term...

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Canela dialect
Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:59:07

many transitive and intransitive verbs), -n (found in some transitive verbs), as well as -c and -m (found in a handful of intransitive verbs which take a...

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Pashto grammar
Kamis, 2026-04-16 01:51:24

subject is in oblique case Intransitive verbs: Past participle+ verb "to be" agree with the subject Example: Intransitive Category 2 verb پخېدل [to ripen...

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Howard Stelzer
Selasa, 2026-04-07 12:00:14

tape players. From 1997 until 2012, he ran the independent record label Intransitive Recordings. Stelzer began making music using cassette tapes and metal...

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Likert scale
Minggu, 2026-03-15 11:43:20

George A.; Gips, Crystal J. (April 12–16, 1993). Paired Comparison Intransitivity: Useful Information or Nuisance? (PDF). The Annual Meeting of the American...

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Shuswap language
Minggu, 2026-04-19 11:29:55

"when I grew up"). The nominalized form: for nouns and intransitive verbs. A nominalized intransitive verb refers to the goal object of the action, as in...

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Reciprocal construction
Rabu, 2025-02-12 23:57:38

Transitivity and valency Transitivity Intransitive verb Transitive verb Ambitransitive verb Valency Impersonal (Avalent) Intransitive verb (Monovalent) Monotransitive...

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Eskaleut languages
Selasa, 2026-04-14 09:37:22

Eskimoan languages are ergative–absolutive. This means subjects of intransitive verbs and objects of transitive verbs are marked with the absolutive...

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Alyutor language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 06:43:11

citation form of a noun. It is used for the argument ("subject") of an intransitive clause and the object of a transitive clause, for "syntactic possessives"...

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan language
Jumat, 2026-05-01 14:50:17

Reconstructed features include prefixes such as the causative s-, the intransitive m-, the miscellaneous b-, d-, g-, and r-, suffixes -s, -t, and -n, and...

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Chewa language
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:38:43

they have a stative or intransitive meaning also usually have a high tone: chit-ik-á 'happen' sungun-uk-á 'melt (intransitive), get melted' However, there...

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Neveʻei language
Senin, 2026-02-16 23:54:11

express intensity. In Neveʻei transitive and intransitive verbs are represented by a technique in which intransitive verbs become transitive through the addition...

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Swahili grammar
Kamis, 2026-05-21 21:32:47

(something)" → -vunjika "to break" (intransitive) -pika "to cook (something)" → -pikika "to cook" (intransitive) -elewa "to understand (something)" →...

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Judeo-Kashani
Jumat, 2025-09-26 01:24:17

enclitic pronouns are divided into two sets. Set I enclitics are used for intransitive verbs in the past tense as well as verbs in the present tense, and they...

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Okanagan language
Jumat, 2026-05-22 07:09:24

within Okanagan can only be used if the predicate of the sentence is intransitive. For example, Kən c'k-am (I count) is perfectly viable in Okanagan, but...

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List of paradoxes
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 04:05:31

probabilities is more complicated than may be obvious on casual examination. Intransitive dice: One can have three dice, called A, B, and C, such that A is likely...

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Discourse marker
Senin, 2025-12-01 04:46:47

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Kiowa language
Rabu, 2026-02-18 14:13:10

Intransitive verbs Number Person Singular Dual Plural 1st à- è- 2nd èm- mà- bà- 3rd – è̱- á- Inverse è-...

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Suret language
Rabu, 2026-06-03 12:42:06

and intransitive verbs, where it unspecialised the absolutive type of inflection. Different handling of inflection with transitive and intransitive verbs...

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Amae
Rabu, 2026-05-13 08:17:57

remain subjects of debate among scholars. The noun amae derives from the intransitive verb amaeru, itself rooted in the adjective amai (甘い), meaning "sweet"...

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William Irving (American politician)
Kamis, 2026-04-16 00:38:18

Times. November 26, 1877. Retrieved October 26, 2017. Da, Nan (2018). Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange. Columbia...

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Karasuk languages
Minggu, 2026-05-10 22:58:14

nominal morphology. For example, the second-person singular prefixes on intransitive verbs are [ɡu-, ɡó-] in Burushaski and [ku-, ɡu-] in Ket. Ket has two...

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Wayoró language
Kamis, 2026-05-14 12:03:23

on the verb are absolutive, i.e., they index the sole argument of an intransitive verb (S) and the patient argument ('direct object') of a transitive verb...

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Collateral adjective
Minggu, 2025-03-23 10:03:16

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Complementizer
Jumat, 2026-02-06 13:00:12

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Construct state
Senin, 2026-03-09 09:11:14

number of Berber verbs are both transitive and intransitive, according to context. In the intransitive case, the construct state is required for the subject...

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Xavante language
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 09:36:49

and intransitive clauses; and an emphatic series that marks pronouns to form emphatic pronominal expressions with both transitive and intransitive clauses...

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Independent voter
Senin, 2026-04-27 09:33:29

(1992). The Myth of the Independent Voter. Petrocik, "An Analysis of Intransitivities in the Index of Party Identification," Political Methodology, Summer...

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Baduy language
Kamis, 2026-05-14 11:59:13

are still productive. Verbs can be distinguished into transitive and intransitive forms, as well as active and passive. The position of Sundanese-Baduy...

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Dynamic verb
Rabu, 2025-11-12 11:46:41

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Oblique case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:22:39

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Mori Bawah language
Senin, 2024-11-11 06:16:13

subject of transitive verbs; O: object of transitive verbs, S: subject of intransitive verbs) are not marked for case, but are obligatorily indexed by a pronominal...

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Marxist humanism
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 21:11:28

perceived. This aligns with a realist perspective in ontology (or the "intransitive" dimension). 2) The Role of Labor: Marx highlights the importance of...

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Frédéric Lordon
Selasa, 2025-09-23 07:01:39

urgent challenges of modern political collectivity and conflict via intransitivity (Deleuze's becomings without a future), aesthetics (Rancière's rare...

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Voting criteria
Jumat, 2025-09-05 03:10:00

Condorcet's voting paradox, and is analogous to the counterintuitive intransitive dice phenomenon known in probability. However, the Smith set, a generalization...

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Tupari languages
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 01:54:24

on the verb are absolutive, i.e., they index the sole argument of an intransitive verb (S) and the patient argument ('direct object') of a transitive verb...

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Interrogative word
Kamis, 2025-10-09 12:14:57

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Qʼanjobʼal language
Kamis, 2026-03-12 22:55:38

Mayan languages, Qʼanjobʼal classifies all verbs as either inherently intransitive (calling up only one argument) or as inherently transitive (calling up...

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Tariana language
Senin, 2026-05-11 22:13:09

for a subject of an intransitive verb, S for a subject of an active intransitive verb, Sₒfor a subject of a stative intransitive verb, and S for a subject...

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Puyuma language
Minggu, 2026-06-07 13:33:15

kur-: be exposed to; be together (passively) m-, ma-: actor voice affix/intransitive affix maka-: along; to face against mara-: comparative/superlative marker...

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English adverbs
Selasa, 2025-08-26 19:28:13

as good or very interesting. (see also List of English prepositions § Intransitive prepositions) Jespersen and others argue that many words traditionally...

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Terminative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 04:43:27

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Massachusett grammar
Kamis, 2026-04-30 05:44:40

and can be broken into four classes of verbs: animate-intransitive (AI), inanimate-intransitive (II), animate-transitive (AT), and inanimate-transitive...

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Jê languages
Rabu, 2026-04-22 21:29:23

Proto-Timbíra: *c > *h Proto-Trans-Tocantins: replacement of *a-mbə ‘eat (intransitive)’ with *ap-ku ‹ The template Infobox proto-language is being considered...

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Proto-Germanic grammar
Selasa, 2026-04-28 02:16:56

the process of coming into that state. As a result, they were always intransitive, and had no passive forms or a past participle. The verb *liznaną "to...

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Ecological rationality
Jumat, 2026-05-29 02:58:14

are often justified based on consistency considerations – for example, intransitive preferences and expectations inconsistent with available information...

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Endurance (TV series)
Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:09:53

have won up to that point. In a variant of the Rock, Paper, Scissors intransitive game, the teams select water, wood, or fire to defeat one another in...

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Lekwungen dialect
Selasa, 2026-04-28 21:08:36

are typically indicated with serial verbs. Lekwungen verbs are always intransitive unless they carry a transitive suffix. There are several different transitivising...

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Munda languages
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:10:07

which is often divided into two sets: I for transitive verbs and II for intransitive verbs. The verb "be" is usually omitted in the present tense and with...

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Wenja language
Minggu, 2026-05-17 05:59:23

of transitive or intransitive verbs, while inactive nominals are subjects of nominal predication, subjects of inactive intransitive verbs and objects...

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Adverbial case
Sabtu, 2024-06-08 06:23:20

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Lative case
Selasa, 2025-12-16 03:19:23

hang on", пышташ põštaš "to put, to place", кушкаш kuškaš "to grow (intransitive)". In many cases, both the illative and the lative cases can be used...

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Pronominal adverb
Senin, 2025-12-15 04:05:53

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Aorist (Ancient Greek)
Selasa, 2026-01-13 15:47:43

but the first has a transitive meaning ('I set up') and the second an intransitive meaning ('I stood'). The stem of the first aorist is often marked by...

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Uses of English verb forms
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:55:35

every day when I was a child. As complement of many other verbs used intransitively, including need and dare (when not used as modal-like verbs), want,...

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Goemai language
Jumat, 2025-12-05 00:51:55

PUR:purpose SG:singular DEF:definite ADVZ:adverbializer S:subject (intransitive and transitive) pronoun IDEOPH:ideophone O:object pronoun CONS:consequence...

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Subcategorization
Kamis, 2025-07-31 21:09:30

noun phrase (NP). Verbs that take just one argument are classified as intransitive, while verbs with two and three arguments are classified as transitive...

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Subject complement
Minggu, 2025-02-16 16:48:48

of its concomitant forms, is the most common. Because a copula is an intransitive verb, subject complements are not customarily construed to be the object...

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Nominative–absolutive alignment
Kamis, 2026-02-12 22:03:02

a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which the sole argument of an intransitive verb shares some coding properties with the agent argument of a transitive...

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Ablative case
Rabu, 2025-11-12 08:33:55

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Direct–inverse alignment
Jumat, 2025-10-03 04:00:18

inverse system which does not conform to the second rule, as certain intransitive verbs and passives of ditransitives also can take inverse morphology...

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Dravidian languages
Senin, 2026-06-08 03:02:54

developed later and independently in each language or subgroup. Verbs are intransitive, transitive, and causative; there are also active and passive forms....

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Mamaindê language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 19:51:07

language with both transitive and intransitive clauses.  Transitive clauses take the structure of SOV and intransitive clauses take the order of SV. Mamaindê...

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Martin Gardner
Rabu, 2026-04-22 04:10:28

the Koch snowflake curve (Mar 1967) Conway's Game of Life (Oct 1970) Intransitive dice (Dec 1970) Newcomb's paradox (Jul 1973) Tangrams (Aug 1974) Penrose...

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List of cuneiform signs
Senin, 2026-06-08 01:42:18

U+122DB 𒋛 SI Verb meaning "to fill", which has more active force than the intransitive verb TUŠ (to sit, dwell), having a highly ideological meaning.   182...

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Deverbal noun
Senin, 2026-01-26 15:11:26

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Median voter theorem
Senin, 2026-05-18 11:48:15

1007/s10479-008-0352-z. S2CID 21000317. McKelvey, Richard D. (June 1976). "Intransitivities in Multidimensional Voting Models and Some Implications for Agenda...

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Compound verb
Selasa, 2026-01-27 20:43:58

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Uwa language
Senin, 2026-04-20 04:33:03

following categories: transitive, intransitive, bitransitive, impersonal, objective clause, auxiliary and copular. Intransitive verbs take one argument, with...

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Kalaw Lagaw Ya
Kamis, 2026-03-26 04:23:38

intransitives, many antipassives and some transitives, and 'attainative', which subsumes many transitives, some antipassives and some intransitives)...

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Testing the waters
Senin, 2026-04-20 07:58:57

Candidate Cliche". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-07-10. "Test (verb: intransitive verb b)". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved...

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Syntax
Senin, 2026-05-18 10:52:26

sentence (the element on the right)." Thus, the syntactic category for an intransitive verb is a complex formula representing the fact that the verb acts as...

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Miami–Illinois language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 06:43:25

not predict all locative case forms, however. Nouns, particles, and intransitive animate verbs can all take the locative. The last is a common way of...

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Bukiyip language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 19:47:06

+ Head (intransitive clause, transitive clause, modified noun phrase) 13. Similarity Phrase: Similarity ('(ko)bwidou(k)') + Head (intransitive clause,...

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Ket language
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:22:09

changes of state), while patient incorporation can make a transitive verb intransitive. Patient incorporation is usually used for patients that are wholly effected...

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Muses
Kamis, 2026-05-28 10:30:19

formations with transitive function and 'have in mind' in those with intransitive function), or from root *men- ('to tower, mountain') since all the most...

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Tboli language
Jumat, 2026-01-02 06:12:20

Philippine languages, makes a distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs. Intransitive verbs are marked with the affix me- while transitive verbs...

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Malay language
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:23:18

does not have a grammatical subject in the sense that English does. In intransitive clauses, the noun comes before the verb. When there is both an agent...

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Condorcet winner
Jumat, 2026-04-17 05:14:24

Condorcet's voting paradox, and is analogous to the counterintuitive intransitive dice phenomenon known in probability. However, the Smith set, a generalization...

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Independence of irrelevant alternatives
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:11:05

{\displaystyle A} over B {\displaystyle B} . The presence of this societal intransitivity is the voting paradox. Regardless of the voting method and the actual...

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Indo-European copula
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 19:00:05

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")...

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Neapolitan language
Senin, 2026-05-25 16:42:58

(Eng. "to have", It. avere), which contrasts with Italian, in which the intransitive and reflexive verbs take èssere for their auxiliary. For example, we...

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Classic Maya language
Senin, 2026-06-01 12:16:48

not inflected for case or gender. There is also an entire class of intransitives that convey the object's spatial position. In addition, the language...

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Lillooet language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:06:16

different subject agreement paradigms for transitive vs. intransitive predicates. For intransitive predicates, there are three distinct subject paradigms...

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Turkish grammar
Rabu, 2026-06-03 15:05:35

sense they are constructive endings. The causative extension makes an intransitive verb transitive, and a transitive verb factitive. Together, the reciprocal...

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Intersective modifier
Jumat, 2024-09-20 00:42:53

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Middle Persian
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 18:02:48

participle describes the logical subject of a verb when the verb is intransitive, but the logical object of the verb when the verb is transitive: e.g...

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Declension
Jumat, 2026-02-20 21:37:19

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Instructive case
Kamis, 2026-01-22 02:55:30

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Sioux language
Rabu, 2026-05-13 04:03:23

with the active verbs being further subcategorized as transitive or intransitive." Some examples of this are: stative: ma-khata "I am hot" (I-hot) ni-khata...

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Pro-drop language
Senin, 2026-02-09 22:13:05

(except Korku) are generally pro-drop, since both subjects and objects of intransitive and transitive verbs are indexed into the verb itself. Limbu (Kiranti...

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Relation (philosophy)
Minggu, 2025-12-28 00:15:12

non-symmetric relations. A further distinction is between transitive and intransitive relations. Transitive relations exhibit a chain-like nature: if x is...

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Argument (linguistics)
Jumat, 2026-01-09 08:55:32

predicates that demand just a subject argument (e.g. sleep, work, relax) are intransitive, verbal predicates that demand an object argument as well (e.g. like...

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Classification of Romance languages
Rabu, 2026-03-11 10:54:53

verbs which use 'be' as an auxiliary are unaccusative verbs, that is, intransitive verbs that often show motion not directly initiated by the subject or...

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Impersonality
Senin, 2025-02-24 23:29:00

Impersonal passive voice, a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb to zero Impersonal verb, a verb that cannot take a true subject...

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Proto-Afroasiatic language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 21:25:14

absolutive case marks both the object of transitive verbs and the subject of intransitive verbs. Satzinger suggests that Proto-Afroasiatic may have developed from...

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Preposition stranding
Rabu, 2026-03-18 07:55:30

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Old Tibetan
Minggu, 2026-01-18 10:42:50

Tibetan transitive verbs were inflected for up to four stems, while intransitive verbs only had one or two stems. In the active voice, there was an imperfective...

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Rama language
Senin, 2026-04-27 11:47:47

al- and aa-, which often correlate with intransitive and transitive meanings respectively. Evident intransitive derivation with al- is illustrated by the...

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S (disambiguation)
Rabu, 2026-05-13 01:06:37

symbol for a voiceless alveolar sibilant sound S, the subject of an intransitive verb Ѕ, the Cyrillic letter Dze Տ, the Armenian letter tyun Ⴝ, the Georgian...

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Inessive case
Minggu, 2025-05-04 23:36:26

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Djeoromitxí language
Rabu, 2026-03-11 02:14:27

has nouns, verbs, adverbs and particles, with adjectives treated as intransitive verbs. Its syntax is noun-modifier and SOV or OVS in order. The following...

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Dominican Spanish
Senin, 2026-06-01 15:07:23

impersonal passives, and other constructions in which transitives are used intransitively": Ello hay personas que lo aprenden bien (el inglés) 'There are people...

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Esperanto grammar
Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:42:51

(there is a mouse in the house). Most verbs are inherently transitive or intransitive. As with the inherent part of speech of a root, this is not apparent...

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Macedonian language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 22:55:03

periods of time (поработи, "worked"). The contrast between transitive and intransitive verbs can be expressed analytically or syntactically and virtually all...

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Early Romani
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 05:21:24

competing intransitive marker -áv-, originating from the verb av- 'to come' (but nevertheless receiving the stress). The older intransitive marker -(j)ov-...

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Wood-decay fungus
Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:52:46

capture and defense of territory. Many competitive interactions were 'intransitive', meaning interactions involved more than two fungal species each often...

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Huave language
Minggu, 2026-03-15 06:42:22

This means that whilst in transitive clauses the word order is AVO, in intransitive clauses the word order is verb–subject (VS). Adjectives and demonstratives...

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Tsugaru dialect
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:25:21

(transitive verb) 凍らせる (こおらせる, kooraseru) しみらがす (shimiragasu) to freeze (intransitive verb) 凍る (こおる, kooru) しみる (shimiru) to eat (verb) 食べる (たべる, taberu),...

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Go First Dice
Selasa, 2025-09-30 04:03:46

permutation-fair solution for five 60-sided dice was found by Paul Meyer in 2023. Intransitive dice Harshbarger, Eric (2015). "Go First Dice". Retrieved 9 Oct 2019...

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Flirting
Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:44:58

"flirt" is unknown. The first use of the word dates to 1580—with the intransitive "flit" and the noun form—ca 1590—with the transitive "flick". Flirt has...

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Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 06:52:37

realists distinguish the transitive (epistemological) dimension and the intransitive (ontological) dimension. In the context of knowledge production, the...

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Yiddish grammar
Jumat, 2026-05-29 23:11:12

koyf 'I buy' is איך האָב געקױפֿט ikh hob gekoyft 'I bought'. About 30 intransitive verbs of motion or status and some of their derivatives take זײַן zayn;...

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Karajá language
Rabu, 2026-04-22 21:32:42

transitive or intransitive and the valence of each verb, therefore, may increase or decrease depending on their status as transitive or intransitive. Nouns can...

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Yami language
Jumat, 2026-05-15 11:02:58

language. The following list are verbal inflections found in Yami. Dynamic intransitive -om-/om- (subjunctive: N-) mi- ma- maN- maka- maci-/masi-/macika-/macipa-...

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Sindhi language
Minggu, 2026-06-07 11:59:48

conjugations, one with a characteristic a which consists of passive and intransitive verbs, and the other, with a characteristic i which consists of transitive...

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Wagiman language
Selasa, 2026-04-28 22:36:04

pronoun does not take the ergative case when acting as the argument of an intransitive clause: ngagun 1SG.NOM maman good nga-yu 1SG-be.PRS ngagun maman nga-yu...

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Autocausative verb
Rabu, 2025-05-28 16:35:02

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Marathi grammar
Selasa, 2026-06-02 21:08:50

instrumental case) instead of having the same form as the subject of an intransitive verb. This change also results in the verb agreeing with the unmarked...

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Massachusett language
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:27:09

and can be broken into four classes of verbs: animate-intransitive (AI), inanimate-intransitive (II), animate-transitive (AT), and inanimate-transitive...

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Yalunka language
Jumat, 2026-03-06 03:57:16

Friederike (2007). "It's a split, but is it unaccusativity? Two classes of intransitive verbs in Jalonke". Studies in Language. 31 (3): 525–568. doi:10.1075/sl...

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Preference (economics)
Minggu, 2026-04-19 21:23:50

a rational agent would prefer. One class of such scenarios involves intransitive dice. And Schumm gives examples of non-transitivity based on Just-noticeable...

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Turkish vocabulary
Rabu, 2026-01-14 23:18:03

nouns or adjectives with -le: başla- "make a head", that is, "begin" (intransitive; baş "head"); kilitle- "make locked", that is, "lock" (kilit "lock");...

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Siar-Lak language
Sabtu, 2025-07-19 20:35:48

go to Kokopo.' Two types of verb phrases include intransitive and transitive verbs. An intransitive verb is used when there is no direct object, while...

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Distributive aspect
Kamis, 2025-10-09 16:13:21

These members are typically the referents named by the subject of an intransitive verb, or the object of a transitive verb. It expresses that the action...

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Rushani language
Minggu, 2026-02-15 04:51:30

object of a transitive verb are both marked, while the subject of an intransitive verb is not. In the present tense, the object of the transitive verb...

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Yagaria language
Jumat, 2026-01-02 09:14:57

less and mostly for citation, some as a subject, and mostly used in intransitive clauses. Examples of using Long forms ba sweet potato yana taro ege banana...

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Indifference curve
Rabu, 2026-03-04 04:21:10

the origin on both sides of where they crossed would give opposite and intransitive preference rankings. (Strictly) convex. Convex preferences imply that...

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Katukína-Kanamarí language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 21:56:20

ergative–absolutive alignment. The absolutive argument (i.e. the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs) is unmarked for case, and usually...

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Western Abenaki language
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 01:24:43

Two main verb distinctions in Western Abenaki are intransitive verbs and transitive verbs. Intransitive verbs only need one participant that is doing the...

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Wayana language
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 07:30:40

number of participants that a verb takes. In Wayana, the subject of an intransitive sentence (S) is distinguished from subject of a transitive sentence (A)...

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Rutul language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:02:23

suffixes. The absolutive case is primarily used to denote the subject of an intransitive verb, the patient of a transitive verb, or the stimulus of a perception...

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Sino-Tibetan languages
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:40:08

at least for Tibeto-Burman, prefixes such as the causative s-, the intransitive m-, and r-, b- g- and d- of uncertain function, as well as suffixes -s...

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Dative case
Minggu, 2026-05-24 08:35:47

Cases Morphosyntactic alignment Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative Location, time, direction Ablative...

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Yukulta language
Kamis, 2026-03-12 13:06:18

transitive or intransitive, with each group having a different conjugation pattern. The intransitive groups can be split into purely intransitive verbs and...

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Imperative mood
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:10:02

to form the tenses composed of the pronominal verbs and some of the intransitive verbs, this means that the structure of the verb imperative in its entirety...

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Catenative verb
Jumat, 2025-10-31 01:40:34

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Singaporean Mandarin
Minggu, 2026-06-07 10:22:57

colloquial Singaporean Mandarin might use intransitive verbs as transitive. For instance, 进步 (improve) is an intransitive verb. But as influenced by the use...

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Mário de Andrade
Selasa, 2026-04-28 00:43:57

two novels during this period using these techniques: the first, Love, Intransitive Verb, was largely a formal experiment.; the second, written shortly after...

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Burmese grammar
Senin, 2025-12-29 07:24:17

Burmese verbs are also differentiated by transitivity. For example, intransitive verbs' resultive states are expressed with the auxiliary verb နေ [nè]...

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Supyire language
Minggu, 2024-12-08 20:42:59

used in Supyire- an intransitive prefix and a future prefix. The perfect and recent past do not have prefixes. The intransitive prefix is marked only...

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Khanty languages
Jumat, 2026-05-01 07:58:01

construction, the object is given the same case as the subject of an intransitive verb, and the locative is used for the agent of the transitive verb (as...

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Dameli language
Senin, 2025-05-19 10:58:08

syllables. Roots can be intransitive, transitive, or ditransitive. The main distinction is between transitive and intransitive verbs. Some common verbs...

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Native Esperanto speakers
Rabu, 2026-04-22 03:53:40

'via', blovi 'to blow') mi superruliĝos vin 'I will roll over you' (an intransitive verb ending in -iĝos won't normally take an object in the accusative...

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Supine
Jumat, 2026-02-27 05:58:35

case-marking Frequentative Germanic strong Germanic weak Impersonal Inchoative Intransitive Labile Lexical Light Modal Negative Performative Phrasal Predicative...

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Marked nominative alignment
Minggu, 2026-05-17 00:57:32

case system, with a suffix -č marking all subjects of transitive and intransitive verbs but not of the copula; in the Nilotic language Datooga, the system...

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Achomi people
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:30:46

structure (the difference between the conjugation of transitive and intransitive verbs) existing in Lari can be mentioned as such an example. The speech...

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Jordanian Arabic
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:48:49

“weather verbs”: štat—tišti “to rain” to derive causative verbs from intransitive verbs with stem CvCvC: gʿad—yigʿid “to wake sth. up” (from gaʿad—yugʿud...

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Kagayanen language
Kamis, 2026-01-01 18:20:24

mean "eat". Verbs are inflected for mood, volition, voice (transitive/intransitive in Pebley's terminology), and whether the absolutive argument is a typical...

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Alignment
Sabtu, 2025-03-01 17:33:55

linguistic system used to distinguish between the arguments of transitive and intransitive verbs Parallel text alignment, the identification of corresponding sentences...

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Kĩsêdjê language
Kamis, 2026-03-19 10:43:26

suffixes are /-ɽ/ (the most common option, found in many transitive and intransitive verbs, with its allomorph /-j/ after the vowel /a/), /-n/ (found in some...

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Natchez language
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 22:39:56

termination "I can work" One set of prefixes simultaneously encode person of intransitive subject and temporal, modal and epistemic information. The prefixes occur...

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Kanoê language
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 06:24:02

transitive and intransitive verbal actions are marked the same way, while the object is marked differently. For subjects of either intransitive or transitive...

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Copenhagen School (linguistics)
Selasa, 2026-03-17 06:20:49

anyone") + Time-frame ("for a while") Expression Determiner + Noun Nexus: Intransitive verb + Present tense + Negation Passive verb + Agent + Time adverb...

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Circumstantial voice
Senin, 2025-02-24 16:43:32

direct objects. However, applicatives may increase the valency of an intransitive verb by adding a direct object, while circumstantials cannot. They also...

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Apma language
Kamis, 2026-04-02 09:09:26

only with children) Many verbs in Apma have distinct transitive and intransitive forms. (These distinctions have been lost to some extent in Suru Kavian...

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Adang language
Senin, 2025-11-10 22:01:38

and onomatopoeic words, resp.). Clauses in Adang are predicate-final: intransitive verbal predicates have Subject-Verb order and transitive predicates follow...

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