intransitive

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ transitive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹænsətɪv/, /ɪnˈtɹænzətɪv/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

intransitive (not comparable)

1. (grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.

   The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."

2. (rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
   • 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery

     And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further.

3. (probability) Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.

Synonyms

• neuter
• nontransitive

Antonyms

• transitive

Derived terms

• intransitively
• intransitive preposition
• intransitive verb
• intransitivity

 

Translations

of a verb, not taking a direct object

Albanian: jokalimtar (sq) Arabic: لَازِم (lāzim) Armenian: անանցողական (hy) (anancʻoġakan) Belarusian: неперахо́дны (njepjeraxódny) Bengali: অকর্মক ক্রিয়া (bn) (okormok kriẏa) Bulgarian: непрехо́ден (bg) (neprehóden) Catalan: intransitiu (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 不及物 (zh) (bùjíwù) Czech: nepřechodný Danish: intransitiv (da) Dutch: onovergangelijk, intransitief (nl) Esperanto: netransitiva (eo) Finnish: intransitiivinen (fi) French: intransitif (fr) Galician: intransitivo (gl) Georgian: გარდაუვალი (gardauvali) German: intransitiv (de) Greek: αμετάβατος (el) (ametávatos) Ancient: ἀμετάβατος (ametábatos) Hungarian: tárgyatlan (hu) Icelandic: áhrifslaus Ido: netransitiva (io) Irish: neamhaistreach Italian: intransitivo (it) Japanese: 自動 (ja) (じどう, jidō) Korean: 자동 (ko) (jadong) Latin: intransitīvus (la) Macedonian: непреоден (nepreoden) Malayalam: അകർമ്മക്രിയ (akaṟmmakriya), അകർമ്മകം (akaṟmmakaṁ) Mongolian: үл тусах (ül tusax), эс тусах (es tusax) Norman: întransitif (Jersey) Norwegian: intransitiv (no) Polish: nieprzechodni (pl) Portuguese: intransitivo (pt) Romanian: intransitiv Russian: неперехо́дный (ru) (neperexódnyj) Sanskrit: अकर्मक (sa) (akarmaka) Scottish Gaelic: anasdolach, neo-aisigeach, neo-chuspaireach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: не̏прела̄зан, не̏пријела̄зан Roman: nȅprelāzan (sh), nȅprijelāzan (sh) Slovak: neprechodný Slovene: neprehoden Spanish: intransitivo (es) Swedish: intransitiv (sv) Tagalog: katawanin Turkish: geçişsiz (tr) Ukrainian: неперехідни́й (neperexidnýj) Vietnamese: nội (vi) Volapük: neloveädik (vo) Welsh: cyflawn (cy) Zazaki: nêravêrde

See also

• ergative

Noun

intransitive (plural intransitives)

1. (grammar) An intransitive verb.
   • 2011, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, The Syntax of Romanian: Comparative Studies in Romance, page 136:

     This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃.zi.tiv/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iv
• Homophone: intransitives

Adjective

intransitive

1. feminine singular of intransitif

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

intransitive

1. inflection of intransitiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.tran.siˈti.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: in‧tran‧si‧tì‧ve

Adjective

intransitive f pl

1. feminine plural of intransitivo

Anagrams

• intravenisti