neuter voice
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A voice which is neither active nor passive (nor middle voice); the voice assigned to a copulative verb.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He uſes the word UNUM, in the neuter voice; which does not belong to a ſingle peſson, but to an (u) unity of perſons."
- "These likewise terminate in ся, and without the particle they are not used. They have the meaning of verbs of either the active or neuter voice."
- "Such verbs really have no voice, but for convenience we may say they are in the neuter voice."
- "We have the Neuter Voice, or Passive of the Intransitive, also āchia (20/16, 20/25), jāiā (for jāiă?: 16/14), mohia (51/23); ho=bhūyate (12/29)."
- "... the neuter voice, we have in verbs of adjectival nature the distinction of inchoative and static forms, such as "to be yellow (static, descriptive)" and "to become yellow (inchoative)""
- "... the laughter, a voice without gender, without inflection, a neuter voice: "I wish I may, I wish I might."