3. In gram., a form of a verb, a voice or mood: in verbo fiunt soloecismi per genera, tempora, personas, modos, etc., Quint. 1, 5, 41: patiendi modus (the passive voice)... faciendi modus (the active voice), id. 9, 3, 7; cf. 1, 6, 26.
Other characteristics of the Na-Dené languages are a clear distinction between active and static verbs, a greater emphasis on verb aspect and voice than on tense, and frequent derivation of verbs from nouns.
Passive voice[7] - "A verb form or voice in which the grammatical subject receives the verb's action".
Action verbs and active voice characterize most of the Personal Memoirs.
The Greek verb has two voices, active and mediopassive (reflexive and passive), which are expressed (leaving aside the aorist passive) by the opposition of two series of personal endings, for each mood (with participle and infinitive) of each tense stem.
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Unlike lexical verbs and adverbial verbs, which can be inflected for voice and TAM, auxiliary verbs are least verb-like but still retain a verbal property, such as clitic attraction (Huang 1995), as in (7c).
In a sentence with a verb in the active voice, the subject is the agent, the direct object is the patient, and the indirect object is the recipient.
In a more extreme example, Latin ī "go!" cumulatively represents in one fused form the verb meaning "go," active voice, imperative mood, second person, and singular number, each a grammatically distinct category.
The youth stands up, spouts something like, "Virtue is a singular noun and the subject of the sentence; secures is a regular verb, indicative mode, active voice, present tense, third person singular; happiness is a singular noun, object of the sentence," and sits back down with a sigh of relief.
