middlevoice
Middle voice is a grammatical voice found in several language families in which the subject of a verb participates in the action as both the doer and the affected participant, or benefits from the action. It is distinct from active, where the subject directly acts on an external object, and from passive, where the subject is on the receiving end of an action performed by someone else. In middle constructions, the action often has a reflexive, benefactive, or resultative interpretation.
In many languages the middle has its own morphology or set of forms. Ancient Greek uses a
Semantically, middle subjects often perform actions on themselves or for their own benefit (I bathe myself),
Scholars debate whether the middle constitutes a separate grammatical category or a functional subtype of the