The word "transitive" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that is used to describe a verb that requires an object in order to make a complete sentence. For example, "The word 'eat' is transitive because it requires a noun to complete the sentence."
And desaparecer, to disappear, became a transitive verb, meaning to kidnap innocent citizens, drug them and load them on to military aircraft from which they would be tossed, living, into the sea.
Verbs that take direct objects are called transitive, and consider is transitive: Some[subject] consider him[object] autisticWhen this goes into a relative clause, the him keeps its case, becoming whom: Newton, whom[object] some[subject] consider autisticBut examples 2-4 have a twisty syntax.
I will confess that, immersed as I was in geek culture, I used "blog" not only as a verb (which we in fact do fairly often at The Economist) but as a transitive one.
Such high trust would not, however, be transitive.
Think is trickier, because it is not traditionally transitive.
Of the tensed transitive verbs in "Politics and the English Language", at least a fifth are in the passive voice.
I searched for "blog the", one marker of transitive use, on our site, and while I can't be sure because the search also returns, for instance, "blog.
What could possibly be wrong with "leave the aircraft", "disembark", or just "get off"?But most galling is that the media have adopted the word whole-heartedly, both as a transitive (airlines deplaning passengers) and an intransitive verb (passengers deplaning).
In the clearest sign that something is wrong, it can be transitive for the passengers too: you don't "deplane from" a plane, you just deplane the plane, as if you were intending to take it to pieces with a screwdriver.Which may well be just what you want to do, after spending several hours stuck in one.
Rosetta Stone won't tell you, but chī is transitive only.
Therefore, your preferences should be transitive.
