transitive verb

Related to transitive verb: intransitive verb

transitive and intransitive verbs

English verbs are split into two major categories depending on how they function in a sentence: transitive and intransitive. Transitive verbs take one or more objects in a sentence, while intransitive verbs take no objects in a sentence.

Put simply, a transitive verb describes an action that is happening to something or someone, which is known as the verb’s direct object.

An intransitive verb, on the other hand, describes an action that does not happen to something or someone.

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Noun

transitive verb - a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

transitive, transitive verb form

verb - the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence

doubly transitive verb, doubly transitive verb form - a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object

Translations

verbe transitif

prijelazni glagol

tárgyas ige

czasownik przechodni

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