This is a poll to check your opinion or your knowledge:

I'm working on a dictionary as part of the Klingon Language Wiki. Now I
wondered: How much do people know the word "in/transitive"? Does it
maybe sound too technical?

Would it be more useable to say
a) - "this is a transitive verb"
or
b) - "this verb can take an object"

Web-based dictionaries will use either version. Merriam Webster is happy to tell you a verb is transitive or intransitive, while Dictionary.com says with object or no object. My physical Oxford American Dictionary says trans. or intrans.

When writing a dictionary, remember that it's not just whether a word is transitive or intransitive, it's whether a particular sense of a word is transitive or intransitive. A translating dictionary will tell you that Suv means fight, but it may not tell you that it can be used transitively, where the object is the entity being fought against, or intransitively, where the subject is engaging in a general activity of fighting, possibly against itself. It's not enough just to say "Suv is transitive."

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