English Explanatory Dictionary

impersonal passive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A construction that removes the subject from an intransitive verb, as in the Dutch sentence Er wordt gefloten ("[Someone] whistled"). Also known as pseudopassive.

Word forms

impersonal passive impersonal passives
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