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neutro-passive

neutro-passive is the alternative form of neutropassive.

Meaning of neutropassive

Adjective

neutropassive (not comparable)

  1. The past perfect tense of a neuter (intransitive) verb which is formed by a passive participle.
    • It will terrify linguists among ourselves to be told that this Slav language which the Germans despise as barbarous , which has scarcely any literature , and which is spoken by very few men of high education — possesses, in addition to our ordinary verbs, also verbs “neutropassive," "inchoative,"...1894, Henry William Wolff, Odd Bits of History, page 149

Questions about neutro-passive

What is neutro-passive the alternative form of?
Neutro-passive is the alternative form of neutropassive.

Words near neutro-passive in the dictionary

  1. neutrinospheres
  2. neutrinospheric
  3. neutrite
  4. neutrium
  5. neutro-
  6. neutro-passive
  7. neutrocclusion
  8. neutrocclusions
  9. neutroception
  10. neutroceptive
  11. neutroceptor

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