Meaning

1 senses

  1. An ergative verb or other expression.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Basque is an ergative language.

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

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  3. There are many ergative languages in the world and Basque is one of them.

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  4. There are many ergative languages in the world, and Basque is one of them.

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

From Ancient Greek ἐργᾰ́της (ergắtēs, “labourer, worker”) + English -ive (suffix meaning ‘

From Ancient Greek ἐργᾰ́της (ergắtēs, “labourer, worker”) + English -ive (suffix meaning ‘belong or relating to; of the nature of; serving to; tending to’ forming adjectives).

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Forms

plural: ergatives
Singularergative
Pluralergatives

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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