impersonal verb

Latin has several impersonal verbs, most often seen in the third person singular.

Impersonal verbs in Thai do not allow for an overt grammatical subject.

Impersonal verbs can be considered null subject data.

For "impersonal verbs" which have no semantic subject.

Sometimes known as a defective verb, impersonal verbs are conjugated in the third person only.

Spanish utilizes a different format when expressing impersonal verbs in its sentences.

Impersonal verbs are those lacking a person.

Impersonal verbs appear only as infinitives or with third-person inflection(s).

As such, it might seem like it would be more grammatical to use impersonal verbs in such cases.

In Spanish, the usage of impersonal verbs stands alone, and involves using a third-person conjugation.

As with impersonal verbs, impersonal pronouns also function without reference to a person in particular.

In ancient Greek, the accusative case is used adverbially with participles of impersonal verbs.

In the active voice, impersonal verbs can be used to express operation of nature, mental distress, and acts with no reference to the do-er.

Impersonal verbs occur with no identifiable actor and in the singular inflection:

Impersonal verbs have no true subject, but use a dummy subject pronoun het ("it").

In terms of valency, impersonal verbs are often avalent, as they often lack semantic arguments.

The impersonal verbs occur only with transitive verbs.

With impersonal verbs such as verbs of weather, however, no pronoun is used:

Impersonal verbs are also called weather verbs because they frequently appear in the context of weather description.

The following sentences illustrate impersonal verbs:

Its central units are "impersonal verbs qualified by monosyllabic suffixes or prefixes which have the force of adverbs."

When an agent is unspecified, impersonal verbs are also known as zero person construction, or impersonal construction.

Impersonal verbs take the pronoun il:

In the planned logical language Lojban, impersonal verbs simply have no first argument filled and might not have any arguments filled at all:

Although, Ilokano is a null-subject language, impersonal verbs are cast in this focus, for example Agar-arbis It is drizzling.