neutropassive
neutropassive adjective: the past perfect tense of a neuter (intransitive) verb which is formed by a passive participle.
Adjective
neutropassive (not comparable)
- 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
- The oldest example yet to emerge is a fragment in Venetian dialect, dating from the end of the Duecento; here the pupil focused on syntactical topics central to the secondary curriculum such as impersonal verbs, verbs of cost, deponent verbs, passive verbs with the ablative, neutropassive verbs...2007, Robert Black, Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, page 113
Forms of neutropassive
| alternative form | neutro-passive |
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Origin of neutropassive
From neutro- + passive.
Questions about neutropassive
- What does neutropassive mean?
- Neutropassive means the past perfect tense of a neuter (intransitive) verb which is formed by a passive participle.
- What part of speech is neutropassive?
- Neutropassive is an adjective.
Words near neutropassive in the dictionary
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