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mediopassives

mediopassives is the plural of mediopassive.

Meaning of mediopassive

Noun

mediopassive (plural mediopassives)

  1. A mediopassive construction; a phrase that uses the mediopassive voice.
    • A systematic study of mediopassive sell in the BNC (Figure 6) confirms that – at least for this verb – the constraint seems to hold: the vast majority of mediopassives with sell contain some kind of modification, namely 92.2%.2014, Antoinette Renouf, Andrew Kehoe, The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics, →ISBN, page 177
    Synonyms:
    middle voice

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Questions about mediopassives

What is mediopassives the plural of?
Mediopassives is the plural of mediopassive.

Words near mediopassives in the dictionary

  1. mediopalatal
  2. medioparietal
  3. medioparietals
  4. mediopassive
  5. mediopassively
  6. mediopassives
  7. mediopassivity
  8. mediopassivization
  9. mediopatellar
  10. medioplantar
  11. medioplantarly

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