- indirect passivelinguistics
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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- indirect passive
This term refers to a grammatical construction where the subject is indirectly affected by an action, typically in a way that the subject does not directly experience the action themselves.
He got caught in the door and ended up in an indirect passive state.
In that movie, many characters were portrayed as being in an indirect passive state.
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