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absolutive cases

absolutive cases is the plural of absolutive case.

Meaning of absolutive case

Noun

absolutive case (plural absolutive cases)

  1. case used to indicate the patient or experiencer of a verb’s action. The absolutive case is used to mark the subject of an intransitive verb, as well as the object of a transitive verb (inasmuch as they are codified in the English nominative-accusative system). Some languages that employ the absolutive case include Abkhaz, Basque, Chechen, Dyirbal, Hindi, Inuktitut, Hiligaynon, and Yup'ik.

Questions about absolutive cases

What is absolutive cases the plural of?
Absolutive cases is the plural of absolutive case.

Words near absolutive cases in the dictionary

  1. absolutistically
  2. absolutists
  3. absolutival
  4. absolutive
  5. absolutive case
  6. absolutive cases
  7. absolutively
  8. absolutives
  9. absolutivity
  10. absolutizable
  11. absolutization

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