English Explanatory Dictionary

middle voice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A voice that is neither active nor passive, because the subject of the verb cannot be unambiguously categorized as either agent or patient, having elements of both.

Word forms

middle voice

Synonyms

activo-passive middle mediopassive voice

Related words

anticausative

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