The absence of the nouns, in and of itself, makes it intransitive.
The intransitive meaning "to bow down" is taken by some commentators.
So, for an intransitive verb we have, either “I am gone,” or “it is gone by me.”
It has come from generalizing all intransitive words into one.
The beauty of Chinese verbs is that they are all transitive or intransitive at pleasure.
A verb which is transitive in one of its senses may be intransitive in another.
The verb lie is an intransitive verb and can have no object after it.
Rise is an intransitive verb, the action not passing over to an object.
Sit is an intransitive verb, or one which has no object after it.
Incolere is transitive, as to inhabit; habitare, intransitive, as to dwell.
1610s, from Late Latin intransitivus "not passing over" (to another person), Priscian's term, from Latin in- "not" (see in- (1)) + transitivus "that may pass over," from transire "to pass over" (see transitive).
