mediopassive
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mediopassive
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From medio- + passive.
adjective medio-passive
- Pertaining to a voice of a transitive verb that is both middle voice and passive voice or reflexive and passive voice. Whereas the function of the passive voice is to remove the agent from the discussion of a transitive activity, the function of the mediopassive voice is to discuss an event in a way which explicitly denies the involvement of an initiating agent.
noun mediopassives · medio-passive
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A mediopassive construction; a phrase that uses the mediopassive voice.
A systematic study of mediopassive sell in the BNC (Figure 6) confirms that – at least for this verb – the constraint seems to hold: the vast majority of mediopassives with sell contain some kind of modification, namely 92.2%.
Similar: middle voice
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adj in the mediopassive voice
| Português | médio-passivo |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | μεσοπαθητικός mesopathitikós |
noun grammatical voice in which the actor of a stative verb is not expressed
| Português | voz médio-passiva |
|---|
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title = {mediopassive},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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