Example sentences for: gerundive

How can you use “gerundive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Analysand , like several - nd words in English, is derived from the gerundive, and so means `(a person) to be analyzed.

  • Mr. Delaney is a victim of the confusion so often experienced by Latin students between the gerund, which is a neuter noun, active in meaning, and the gerundive, which is an adjective of similar form, but passive in meaning.

  • An interesting example of a derivative from the passive gerundive that has acquired a quasi-active meaning is reprimand from reprimendus , `one who is to be repressed.


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