intransitif
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11 characters
Language
French
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intransitif is anFrenchadj. It means: (sens grammatical discuté) Qualifie un verbe, ou l’emploi d’un verbe, qui n’accepte pas de complément d’objet direct. Pronounced \ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intransitif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for intransitif is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃.zi.tif\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for intransitif in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is intransitif, spelled I-N-T-R-A-N-S-I-T-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(sens grammatical discuté) Qualifie un verbe, ou l’emploi d’un verbe, qui n’accepte pas de complément d’objet direct.
- 2Qualifie un verbe qui ne régit aucun complément, dont la valence n'implique que le sujet.
- 3Dans les langues inuites et yupikes, se dit d’un verbe dont la conjugaison utilise des désinences n’impliquant que le sujet (uniactancielles), le verbe en question pouvant très bien accepter un complément d’objet direct.
- 4Se dit d’une relation R telle que : si (x R y) et si (y R z), alors (x R z) est obligatoirement faux.
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