impersonal passive

noun

Definitions

  1. A construction that removes the subject from an intransitive verb, as in the Dutch…

    A construction that removes the subject from an intransitive verb, as in the Dutch sentence Er wordt gefloten ("[Someone] whistled"). Also known as pseudopassive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for impersonal passive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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