Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)A grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages.

    Ergativ

    эргати́вergatív, эргати́вный паде́жergatívnyj padéž

Examples

1 sentences
  1. In Basque, the active subject should have an ergative case marker.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
case used to indicate the agent of a verb in ergative-absolutive languages:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
case used to indicate the agent of a verb in ergative-absolutive languages:

Forms

plural: ergative cases
Singularergative case

uncountable

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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