Editing Verb (section)

=== Impersonal and objective verbs ===
[[Weather verb]]s often appear to be [[impersonal verb|impersonal]] (subjectless, or avalent) in [[null-subject language]]s like [[Spanish language|Spanish]], where the verb ''llueve'' means "It rains". In English, French and German, they require a [[dummy pronoun]] and therefore formally have a valency of 1. As verbs in Spanish incorporate the subject as a TAM suffix, Spanish is not actually a null-subject language, unlike Mandarin (see above). Such verbs in Spanish also have a valency of 1.

Intransitive and transitive verbs are the most common, but the impersonal and '''[[Impersonal verb|objective verbs]]''' are somewhat different from the norm. In the objective, the verb takes an object but no subject; the nonreferent subject in some uses may be marked in the verb by an incorporated dummy pronoun similar to that used with the English weather verbs. Impersonal verbs in null subject languages take neither subject nor object, as is true of other verbs, but again the verb may show incorporated dummy pronouns despite the lack of subject and object phrases.