Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

indirect transitive

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English

Syllables: in-di-rec-t -tran-si-tive
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

7

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Taking an indirect object.

Example Sentences

"French indirect transitive verbs, i.e. verbs which take an indirect object, cannot be passive."
"It is common, not only for perception verbs but also for verbs that convey a metaphorically directional action with partially affected objects (especially animate objects), to display canonical indirect transitive constructions."
"Overall children's performance on direct transitive event (e.g. girl crumpling a paper) was not significantly different from their performance on the indirect transitive event (e.g. man putting powder in a liquid that changes its color)."

Inflected Forms

indirectly transitive (alternative)

Questions

What does indirect transitive mean?: Taking an indirect object.

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