transitiva

Transitiva is the feminine form of the adjective transitivo, used in languages with grammatical gender to describe concepts related to transitivity. In linguistic description, transitivity concerns whether a verb or clause can or must take a direct object, distinguishing transitive from intransitive forms. The term appears in phrases such as verbo transitivo and oración transitiva in Spanish and Portuguese, and similar terms in other Romance languages.

In grammar, a transitive verb requires a direct object to complete its meaning. For example, in Portuguese “Eu como uma maçã” (I eat an apple) and in Spanish “Yo como una manzana.” In contrast, intransitive verbs do not require a direct object, as in Portuguese “Eu corro todos os dias” or Spanish “Yo corro todas las mañanas.” Many languages also have ditransitive verbs that take two objects, typically a direct and an indirect one, as in Portuguese “Eu dou o livro à professora” (I give the book to the teacher).

Transitiva also appears in discussions of transitivity in logic and mathematics. A relation R is transitive if, whenever aRb and bRc hold, then aRc also holds. A common example is the “greater than” relation: if A > B and B > C, then A > C.

Beyond grammar and formal logic, transitiva as a term can appear in academic, educational, or contextual descriptions of phenomena related to transfer or relational chaining. The feminine form is used where the language requires gender agreement with the noun it modifies, and the underlying concept remains the same: the involvement of a direct object in a verb’s meaning or a chain of related relations.