intransitive
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1. intransitive - Noun
2. intransitive - Adjective
Meaning
Not passing farther; kept; detained.
Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.
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Circular ambiguities arise as a result of the voting paradox —the result of an election can be intransitive (forming a cycle) even though all individual voters expressed a transitive preference.
Ambitransitivity main In many languages, there are "ambitransitive" verbs, which can be either transitive or intransitive.
For example, English play is ambitransitive (both intransitive and transitive), since it is grammatical to say His son plays, and it is also grammatical to say His son plays guitar.
For most main verbs the auxiliary is (the appropriate form of) avoir ("to have"), but for reflexive verbs and certain intransitive verbs the auxiliary is a form of être ("to be").
If a language has no cases, but the word order is AVP or PVA, then a classification may reflect whether the subject of an intransitive verb appears on the same side as the agent or the patient of the transitive verb.
In (2), the verb is intransitive and the subject is the patient of the action, i.e. it is the thing affected by the action, not the one that performs it.