TRANSITIVE VERB FORM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

Synonyms:

transitive; transitive verb; transitive verb form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("transitive verb form" is a kind of...):

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transitive verb form"):

doubly transitive verb; doubly transitive verb form (a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object)