- mediopassive voice
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A grammatical voice in which the actor of a stative verb is not expressed. This is a special type of passive voice, which is the general phenomenon of the actor of a verb not being expressed.
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Mediopassive voice — The mediopassive voice is a grammatical voice which subsumes the meanings of both the middle voice and the passive voice. Languages of the Indo European family (and many others) typically have two or three voices of the three: active, middle, and … Wikipedia
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