English
Noun
passive vocabulary (countable and uncountable, plural passive vocabularies)
- The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use.
- Coordinate term: active vocabulary
- John's passive vocabulary seems to encompass most of the words in the Collegiate Dictionary!
Translations
words and phrases that someone understands but does not commonly use
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 被動詞彙 / 被动词汇 (bèidòng cíhuì)
- Dutch: passieve woordenschat m
- Finnish: passiivinen sanavarasto
- French: vocabulaire passif m
- German: passiver Wortschatz (de) m
- Polish: słownik bierny m
- Portuguese: vocabulário passivo m
- Romanian: vocabular pasiv (ro) n
- Russian: пасси́вный слова́рный запа́с m (passívnyj slovárnyj zapás), пасси́вная ле́ксика f (passívnaja léksika), пасси́вный лексико́н m (passívnyj leksikón), пасси́вный слова́рь (ru) m (passívnyj slovárʹ)
- Ukrainian: паси́вний словнико́вий запа́с m (pasývnyj slovnykóvyj zapás), паси́вний словни́к m (pasývnyj slovnýk)
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