impersonal passive
nounDefinitions
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.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA