Transitivity (grammar)

Transitivity - property of verbs that relates to whether a verb can take direct objects and how many such objects a verb can take. Article “Transitivity (grammar)” in English Wikipedia has 20.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.64 points.

This article has the best quality in Hungarian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Transitivity (grammar)”, its content was written by 72 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 664 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 243 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1525 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #107994 in February 2023
• Global: #19974 in September 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #253187 in October 2011
• Global: #38811 in November 2010

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hungarian (hu) Tranzitivitás (nyelvészet)		45.9571
2	Esperanto (eo) Transitiveco (lingvistiko)		45.3819
3	Romanian (ro) Tranzitivitate (gramatică)		37.8363
4	German (de) Transitivität (Grammatik)		26.1504
5	Chinese (zh) 及物性		25.4876
6	French (fr) Transitivité (grammaire)		24.9085
7	Italian (it) Transitività (linguistica)		24.7503
8	Simple English (simple) Transitivity (grammar)		23.3323
9	Polish (pl) Przechodniość (gramatyka)		22.5838
10	English (en) Transitivity (grammar)		20.6357

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Transitivity (grammar)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Transitividad (gramática)		948 690
2	Portuguese (pt) Predicação verbal		845 070
3	German (de) Transitivität (Grammatik)		628 218
4	English (en) Transitivity (grammar)		490 680
5	French (fr) Transitivité (grammaire)		387 927
6	Italian (it) Transitività (linguistica)		371 680
7	Arabic (ar) لزوم وتعد		299 280
8	Russian (ru) Переходность		149 790
9	Romanian (ro) Tranzitivitate (gramatică)		137 348
10	Dutch (nl) Transitiviteit (taalkunde)		124 409

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Transitivity (grammar)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Transitivity (grammar)		1 727
2	German (de) Transitivität (Grammatik)		1 199
3	French (fr) Transitivité (grammaire)		657
4	Spanish (es) Transitividad (gramática)		496
5	Simple English (simple) Transitivity (grammar)		380
6	Russian (ru) Переходность		372
7	Portuguese (pt) Predicação verbal		341
8	Arabic (ar) لزوم وتعد		249
9	Romanian (ro) Tranzitivitate (gramatică)		173
10	Italian (it) Transitività (linguistica)		155

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Transitivity (grammar)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Transitivität (Grammatik)		101
2	Portuguese (pt) Predicação verbal		88
3	French (fr) Transitivité (grammaire)		83
4	English (en) Transitivity (grammar)		72
5	Italian (it) Transitività (linguistica)		70
6	Spanish (es) Transitividad (gramática)		51
7	Dutch (nl) Transitiviteit (taalkunde)		40
8	Russian (ru) Переходность		28
9	Galician (gl) Transitividade		22
10	Norwegian (no) Transitivitet		19

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Transitivity (grammar)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Transitivité (grammaire)		2
2	Arabic (ar) لزوم وتعد		0
3	Danish (da) Transitivitet (grammatik)		0
4	German (de) Transitivität (Grammatik)		0
5	English (en) Transitivity (grammar)		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Transitiveco (lingvistiko)		0
7	Spanish (es) Transitividad (gramática)		0
8	Estonian (et) Sihilisus		0
9	Persian (fa) گذرایی		0
10	Finnish (fi) Transitiivisuus (kielioppi)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Transitivity (grammar)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Transitivity (grammar)		243
2	Portuguese (pt) Predicação verbal		166
3	Russian (ru) Переходность		155
4	French (fr) Transitivité (grammaire)		148
5	Romanian (ro) Tranzitivitate (gramatică)		134
6	German (de) Transitivität (Grammatik)		130
7	Spanish (es) Transitividad (gramática)		124
8	Italian (it) Transitività (linguistica)		92
9	Persian (fa) گذرایی		76
10	Dutch (nl) Transitiviteit (taalkunde)		72

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لزوم وتعد
da	Danish Transitivitet (grammatik)
de	German Transitivität (Grammatik)
en	English Transitivity (grammar)
eo	Esperanto Transitiveco (lingvistiko)
es	Spanish Transitividad (gramática)
et	Estonian Sihilisus
fa	Persian گذرایی
fi	Finnish Transitiivisuus (kielioppi)
fr	French Transitivité (grammaire)
gl	Galician Transitividade
hu	Hungarian Tranzitivitás (nyelvészet)
it	Italian Transitività (linguistica)
nl	Dutch Transitiviteit (taalkunde)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Transitivitet
no	Norwegian Transitivitet
pl	Polish Przechodniość (gramatyka)
pt	Portuguese Predicação verbal
ro	Romanian Tranzitivitate (gramatică)
ru	Russian Переходность
simple	Simple English Transitivity (grammar)
sl	Slovenian Glagolska prehodnost
zh	Chinese 及物性

Best Rank

English: #253187 10.2011

Global: #38811 11.2010

Best Rank

English: #107994 02.2023

Global: #19974 09.2010

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