doubly transitive

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doubly transitive (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Synonym of ditransitive
    • 1994, Wheeler M. Thackston, chapter 21, in An Introduction to Koranic and Classical Arabic: An Elementary Grammar of the Language, page 124:
      Verbs that are doubly transitive, or that take a complement in the accusative in addition to a direct object, retain the accusative second object or complement in the passive voice.
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