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transitive meaning in Sanskrit

सकर्मक sakarmaka

/ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/

transitive in Sanskrit: सकर्मक (sakarmaka). In English, transitive means making a transit or passage.

Sanskrit words for transitive

transitive
सकर्मक sakarmaka

English meaning of transitive

  1. adjective Making a transit or passage.
  2. adjective Affected by transference of signification.
  3. adjective Taking a direct object or objects.
  4. adjective Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.

Full definition of transitive

transitive in a sentence

  • The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
  • "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.

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Questions about transitive in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of transitive in Sanskrit?
Transitive in Sanskrit is सकर्मक (sakarmaka).
transitive इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Transitive: सकर्मक (sakarmaka).
What does transitive mean in English?
Transitive means making a transit or passage.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “transitive”: सकर्मक. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: transitive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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