ergative

8 letters · adjective · scores 2,200 in SpellHuntr

adjective

With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction.

Ergative in a sentence

The case systems of ergative languages are counter-intuitive to speakers of many Indo-European languages.

Unlike those with subjectivized ergatives, such locative clauses naturally do not allow for imperatives (*Contain the apples).

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