IMPERSONAL VERB, in grammar, a verb to which the nominative of any certain person cannot be prefixed; or, as others define it, a verb destitute of the two first and primary persons, as deces, oportet, &c. The impersonal verbs of the active voice end in t, and those of the passive in ur; they are conjugated thro' the third person singular of almost all the tenses and moods: they want the imperative, instead of which we use the present of the subjunctive; as paniceat, pagnetur, &c. nor, but a few excepted, are they to be met with in the supines, participles, or gerunds.
IMPERSONAL VERB
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