(of verbs 动词 used with a direct object 及物的 In ‘She wrote a letter’, the verb ‘wrote’ is transitive and the word ‘letter’ is the direct object. 在 She wrote a letter 一句中，动词 wrote 是及物动词，letter 一词是直接宾语。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations DictionaryTransitive is used with these nouns:- verb
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘transitory’): from late Latin transitivus, from transit- ‘gone across’, from transire ‘go across’.