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impersonal passives

impersonal passives is the plural of impersonal passive.

Meaning of impersonal passive

Noun

impersonal passive (plural impersonal passives)

  1. A construction that removes the subject from an intransitive verb, as in the Dutch sentence Er wordt gefloten ("[Someone] whistled"). Also known as pseudopassive.

Questions about impersonal passives

What is impersonal passives the plural of?
Impersonal passives is the plural of impersonal passive.

Words near impersonal passives in the dictionary

  1. impersistence
  2. impersistent
  3. impersonable
  4. impersonal
  5. impersonal passive
  6. impersonal passives
  7. impersonal subject
  8. impersonal subjects
  9. impersonal verb
  10. impersonal verbs
  11. impersonalisation

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