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impersonal passive

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impersonal passive (plural impersonal passives)

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

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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