"middle verb" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "middle verbs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "middle verb (plural middle verbs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Geert Booij, The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, page 60",
          "text": "Formation of the middle verbs mentioned above illustrates that derivational processes are used to create specific subclasses of verbs. Middle verbs in English are intransitive verbs, whereas their base verbs are transitive, that is, require a direct object to be present. Middle verb formation is therefore a case of change in syntactic valency.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verb which expresses an action when used transitively and a state when used intransitively."
      ],
      "id": "en-middle_verb-en-noun-abr1Q9k4",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "transitively",
          "transitively#Adverb"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "intransitively",
          "intransitively#Adverb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A verb which expresses an action when used transitively and a state when used intransitively."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "middle voice"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "middle verb"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "middle verbs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "middle verb (plural middle verbs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "middle voice"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Grammar"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Geert Booij, The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, page 60",
          "text": "Formation of the middle verbs mentioned above illustrates that derivational processes are used to create specific subclasses of verbs. Middle verbs in English are intransitive verbs, whereas their base verbs are transitive, that is, require a direct object to be present. Middle verb formation is therefore a case of change in syntactic valency.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verb which expresses an action when used transitively and a state when used intransitively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "transitively",
          "transitively#Adverb"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "intransitively",
          "intransitively#Adverb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A verb which expresses an action when used transitively and a state when used intransitively."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}