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antipassivizes

antipassivizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of antipassivize.

Meaning of antipassivize

Verb

antipassivize (third-person singular simple present antipassivizes, present participle antipassivizing, simple past and past participle antipassivized)

  1. (transitive) To convert (a clause, word, etc.) into the antipassive voice.
    • If we wish to form an agentive participle, we must first antipassivize the verb (the antipassive suffix being -ŋay).1985, Avery Andrews, “The major functions of the noun phrase”, in Timothy Shopen, editor, Language Typology and Syntactic Description, volume I: Clause Structure, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire […]...

Questions about antipassivizes

What is antipassivizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Antipassivizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of antipassivize.

Words near antipassivizes in the dictionary

  1. antipassivising
  2. antipassivization
  3. antipassivizations
  4. antipassivize
  5. antipassivized
  6. antipassivizes
  7. antipassivizing
  8. antipasta
  9. antipasti
  10. antipasto
  11. antipastoral

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