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benefactives

benefactives is the plural of benefactive.

Meaning of benefactive

Noun

benefactive (plural benefactives)

  1. A term or sentence element that serves a benefactive role or that is inflected for the benefactive case or a similar case (such as the dative case).
    Antonyms:
    malefactive

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Questions about benefactives

What is benefactives the plural of?
Benefactives is the plural of benefactive.

Words near benefactives in the dictionary

  1. benefaction
  2. benefactions
  3. benefactive
  4. benefactive case
  5. benefactive cases
  6. benefactives
  7. benefactivity
  8. benefactor
  9. benefactoress
  10. benefactoresses
  11. benefactories

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Adapted from Wiktionary: benefactives (page history and authors); benefactive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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