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title: Transitive Verb
aliases: [transitive, transitive verb, intransitive, intransitive verb, transitivity]
tags: [term]
category: Verb grammar
summary: A verb that takes an object (eat something); an intransitive verb does not (go, sit).

Transitive Verb

A transitive verb takes an object. For example, you eat something, drink something. An intransitive verb doesn't: you can't go something.

The distinction matters in OVP because a transitive verb carries an object prefix and pairs with an object noun (with its object suffix): isha'-ii tüba-neika ma-düka-ti = "the coyote is eating the pinenut." Intransitive verbs like katü ("sit") or mia ("go") take no object.

See also Verb, Object, and Building Sentences.

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