Meaning of neuter voice | Babel Free

Definitions

A voice which is neither active nor passive (nor middle voice); the voice assigned to a copulative verb.

uncommon, uncountable, usually

Examples

“He uſes the word UNUM, in the neuter voice; which does not belong to a ſingle peſson, but to an (u) unity of perſons.”

“These likewise terminate in ся, and without the particle they are not used. They have the meaning of verbs of either the active or neuter voice.”

“Such verbs really have no voice, but for convenience we may say they are in the neuter voice.”

“We have the Neuter Voice, or Passive of the Intransitive, also āchia (20/16, 20/25), jāiā (for jāiă?: 16/14), mohia (51/23); ho=bhūyate (12/29).”

“... the neuter voice, we have in verbs of adjectival nature the distinction of inchoative and static forms, such as "to be yellow (static, descriptive)" and "to become yellow (inchoative)"”

“... the laughter, a voice without gender, without inflection, a neuter voice: "I wish I may, I wish I might.”

“It is the narrative voice, a neuter voice that speaks the work from that place-less place in which the work is silent.”

“"I am receiving a communications signal," the aerospace truck told Sinead and the XTs, using a stiff neuter voice now that Silvercup's essence had been withdrawn from it.”

“Historically reflexive verbs expressing neuter voice consists of three members - active voice - neuter voice - passive voice.”

“For instance, while the Hebrew of the Old Testament has only masculine and feminine voice, the New Testament Greek has a neuter voice as well.”

“Yet no sooner is the neuter voice heard than it blends listlessly into background sound, a murmur clueless about things. The neuter voice is too reticent, too timid—too unjust—to be audible.”

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