English Dictionary

passival

名詞

(grammar) An archaic progressive construction in middle voice (syntactically active but semantically passive), replaced by the passive progressive in modern English. For example, "the house is building", "the meal was eating", "the trunks were carrying down" (today "the house is being built", "the meal is being eaten").

日本語の意味

passivalは、古英語における文法用語で、進行形の中で中間態（形式上は能動だが、意味上は受動）を表す構文です。これは現代英語の受動進行形（例：「the house is being built」など）に置き換えられた、古典的な用法です。

The class discussed the passival, an archaic progressive construction in the middle voice exemplified by sentences like the house is building.

授業では、中動態の古い進行形構文（「the house is building」のような文で例示される）について議論した。

意味（1）

(grammar) An archaic progressive construction in middle voice (syntactically active but semantically passive), replaced by the passive progressive in modern English. For example, "the house is building", "the meal was eating", "the trunks were carrying down" (today "the house is being built", "the meal is being eaten").