neutropassive

neutropassive

English

Alternative forms

• neutro-passive

Etymology

neutro- +‎ passive

Adjective

neutropassive (not comparable)

1. (grammar) The past perfect tense of a neuter verb which is formed by a passive participle.
   • 1894, Henry William Wolff, Odd Bits of History, page 149:

     It will terrify linguists among ourselves to be told that this Slav language which the Germans despise as barbarous , which has scarcely any literature , and which is spoken by very few men of high education — possesses, in addition to our ordinary verbs, also verbs “neutropassive," "inchoative," "durative," "momentaneous," and "iterative"; an aorist, like greek, and a preterite aorist of its own; a subjunctive pluperfect, and in declension seven cases, including a "sociative" case, and a "locative."

   • 2007, Robert Black, Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, page 113:

     The oldest example yet to emerge is a fragment in Venetian dialect, dating from the end of the Duecento; here the pupil focused on syntactical topics central to the secondary curriculum such as impersonal verbs, verbs of cost, deponent verbs, passive verbs with the ablative, neutropassive verbs, participles and comparatives.

   • 2014, Lutz Marten, ‎Donovan Lee Mcgrath, Colloquial Swahili:

     The neutropassive extension, discussed above, is sometimes called the stative extension. This is because verbs in the neutropassive form often indicate states resulting from some action, rather than the action itself.