transitive verb

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Etymology

Coined between 1580 and 1590.

Noun

transitive verb (plural transitive verbs)

1. (grammar): A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive verbs can also be used in the passive voice when the direct object of the equivalent active-voice sentence becomes the subject.

Translations

a verb that is accompanied by a direct object

• Arabic: (indefinite) فعل متعدٍ (ar) (fiʿl mutaʿaddin) m
• Armenian: անցողական բայ (hy) (ancʿołakan bay)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 及物動詞 (cmn), 及物动词 (cmn) (jíwù dòngcí), 他動詞 (cmn), 他动词 (cmn) (tādòngcí)

• Dutch: overgankelijk werkwoord n, transitief werkwoord n
• Esperanto: transitiva verbo
• Finnish: transitiivinen verbi (fi), transitiiviverbi (fi)
• French: verbe transitif (fr) m
• German: transitives Verb (de) n
• Hungarian: tárgyas ige (hu)
• Icelandic: áhrifssögn (is) f
• Japanese: 他動詞 (ja) (たどうし, tadōshi)
• Jèrriais: vèrbe transitif m

• Korean: 타동사 (ko) (tadongsa) (他動詞 (ko))
• Macedonian: преоден глагол (mk) (préoden glágol) m
• Novial: transitiv verbe
• Polish: czasownik przechodni (pl) m
• Romanian: verb tranzitiv (ro) n
• Russian: переходный глагол (ru) (perexódnyj glagól) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прелазни глагол (sh) m, пријелазни глагол (sh) m

  Roman: prelazni glagol (sh) m, prijelazni glagol (sh) m

• Spanish: verbo transitivo (es) m
• Swedish: transitivt verb (sv) n
• Turkish: geçişli fiil (tr), geçişli eylem (tr)
• Volapük: värb loveädik (vo)

Antonyms

• intransitive verb

Related terms

• ditransitive verb
• intradirective verb
• labile verb