Meanings
alternative indirectly transitive
- not comparablegrammarTaking an indirect object.
French indirect transitive verbs, i.e. verbs which take an indirect object, cannot be passive.
1999, Monique L'Huillier, Advanced French Grammar, →ISBN, page 2452 more examples
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.
2008, Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann, The Typology of Semantic Alignment, →ISBN, page 209Overall 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).
2008, Hindi-speaking Two-year-old Children's Development of Verb Constructions, →ISBN
Translations
Polish przechodni z dopełnieniem dalszym
- przechodni z dopełnieniem dalszymgrammar: taking an indirect object
Portuguese transitivo indireto
- transitivo indiretogrammar: taking an indirect object
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