B1🧠 Personality
Italian word
passivo
passive, submissive, not taking initiative
Looks like
passive
accepting or allowing what happens without active response
⚠️ The trap
True cognate. 'Passivo' also appears in finance ('il passivo' = the liabilities/debts of a company) and grammar ('forma passiva' = passive form). For personality, used identically.
To say "accepting or allowing what happens without active response" in Italian:
passivo (true cognate)
"passivo" in English means:
passive, submissive, not taking initiative
Example
"Il suo atteggiamento passivo rende le discussioni difficili."
"His passive attitude makes discussions difficult."
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