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ditransitive

Meaning of "ditransitive" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DITRANSITIVE

daɪˈtrænsɪtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DITRANSITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ditransitive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DITRANSITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ditransitive verb

In grammar, a ditransitive verb is a verb which takes a subject and two objects which refer to a theme and a recipient. According to certain linguistics considerations, these objects may be called direct and indirect, or primary and secondary. This is in contrast to monotransitive verbs, which take only one object, a direct object. In languages which mark grammatical case, it is common to differentiate the objects of a ditransitive verb using, for example, the accusative case for the direct object, and the dative case for the indirect object. In languages without morphological case the objects are distinguished by word order and/or context.

Definition of ditransitive in the English dictionary

The definition of ditransitive in the dictionary is taking both a direct object and indirect object.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DITRANSITIVE

capacitive · competitive · context-sensitive · creative · heat-sensitive · hypersensitive · insensitive · intransitive · native · nonsensitive · nontransitive · oversensitive · photosensitive · positive · radiosensitive · sensitive · supersensitive · transitive · ultrasensitive · unsensitive

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DITRANSITIVE

dithiocarbamate · dithiol · dithionate · dithionite · dithionous acid · dithyramb · dithyrambic · dithyrambist · ditokous · ditone · ditriglyph · ditriglyphic · ditrochean · ditrochee · ditsiness · dittander · dittanies · dittany · dittay · ditties

WORDS THAT END LIKE DITRANSITIVE

active · additive · anticompetitive · aperitive · case-sensitive · cognitive · definitive · false positive · fugitive · HIV-positive · inquisitive · intuitive · nutritive · price-sensitive · primitive · prohibitive · punitive · repetitive · seropositive · time-sensitive · touch-sensitive

Synonyms and antonyms of ditransitive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ditransitive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DITRANSITIVE

Find out the translation of ditransitive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ditransitive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ditransitive» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

双及物
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

ditransitive
570 millions of speakers
en

English

ditransitive
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

ditransitive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ditransitive
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

ditransitive
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

bitransitivo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ditransitive
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

ditransitive
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Ditransitif
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

ditransitiven
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

二重目的語
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

ditransitive
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ditransitif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ditransitive
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ditransitive
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

चिंतनशील
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

ditransitive
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

ditransitive
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

ditransitive
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

ditransitive
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

ditransitive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ditransitive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ditransitive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ditransitive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ditransitive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ditransitive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DITRANSITIVE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DITRANSITIVE»

Discover the use of ditransitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ditransitive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook
This rich volume explores the cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, syntactic patterns of 'give'-like verbs taking Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments.
Andreĭ Lʹvovich Malʹchukov, Martin Haspelmath, Bernard Comrie, 2010
2
The Ditransitive Construction in Korean
This thesis investigates the Korean dative construction that consists of the Goal (Indirect Object: IO), an NP marked with a dative marker, and the Theme (Direct Object: DO), an NP marked with an accusative marker.
Lan Kim, 2008
3
Structural-functional Studies in English Grammar: In Honour ...
Ditransitive clauses in English with special reference to Lancashire dialect Anna Siewierska and Willem Hollmann Lancaster University Unlike many other languages, English has three ditransitive constructions; a prepositional one in which ...
Michael Hannay, Gerard Steen, 2007
4
Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument ...
6. The. English. Ditransitive. Construction. 6.1 Introduction The ditransitive construction has already been discussed with respect to its polysemy (chapter 2) and its partial productivity (chapter 5). In this chapter, I concentrate on particular ...
Adele E. Goldberg, 1995
5
Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar
7.1 Introduction: OFFER as a low-frequency ditransitive verb The third verb analyzed in the present study, OFFER, is different from the prototypical ditransitive verb GIVE and the non-prototypical verb SEND for quantitative as well as qualitative ...
Marco Schilk, 2011
6
Introduction to the Grammar of English
... the dress too large. ) 5.4 The ditransitive construction Complex-transitive clauses like (25) with an NP functioning as PC are to be distinguished from ditransitive clauses like •95 5.4 The ditransitive construction 5.4 The ditransitive construction.
Rodney Huddleston, 1984
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Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistics and ...
These verbs sometimes have a prepositional complement structure [NP to NP] , and a ditransitive structure [NP NP]. I argue that the Double-object construction ( NP NP) is the default structure associated with ditransitive verbs in these (and ...
Geneviève Escure, Armin Schwegler, 2004
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Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings
Chapter 11 Construction Grammar The inherent semantics of argument structure: The case of the English ditransitive construction1 Adele E. Goldberg 1. Introduction In their Language article, “The learnability and acquisition of the dative ...
Dirk Geeraerts, 2006
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Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
So, in Belgian Dutch, the ditransitive construction is more flexible with regard to the degree of contiguity required ... the Belgian Dutch ditransitive parallels the English construction in this regard: it is compatible with benefactive events as long ...
Dirk Geeraerts, Gitte Kristiansen, Yves Peirsman, 2010
10
Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar
On the basis of this principle, the caused-motion and ditransitive constructions in English differ in terms of the weight of the two NPs. The recipient NP tends to be heavier than the theme NP in the caused-motion construction; in contrast, the ...
Hans Christian Boas, 2010

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DITRANSITIVE»

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Does Any Language Have Tritransitive Verbs?
1 actually is merely a ditransitive verb with a prepositional phrase that, though semantically obligatory and syntactically requires a prepositional ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 14»
REFERENCE
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