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indirect transitive

indirect transitive adjective: taking an indirect object.

Adjective

indirect transitive (not comparable)

  1. Taking an indirect object.
    • French indirect transitive verbs, i.e. verbs which take an indirect object, cannot be passive.1999, Monique L'Huillier, Advanced French Grammar, →ISBN, page 245
    • It is common, not only for perception verbs but also for verbs that convey a metaphorically directional action with partially affected objects (especially animate objects), to display canonical indirect transitive constructions.2008, Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann, The Typology of Semantic Alignment, →ISBN, page 209

Forms of indirect transitive

alternative formindirectly transitive

Questions about indirect transitive

What does indirect transitive mean?
Indirect transitive means taking an indirect object.
What part of speech is indirect transitive?
Indirect transitive is an adjective.

Words near indirect transitive in the dictionary

  1. indirect report
  2. indirect reports
  3. indirect speech
  4. indirect tax
  5. indirect taxes
  6. indirect transitive
  7. indirected
  8. indirecting
  9. indirection
  10. indirections
  11. indirective

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