impersonal passive

English

Noun

impersonal passive (plural impersonal passives)

  1. (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.
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