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causatives

causatives is the plural of causative.

Meaning of causative

Noun

causative (plural causatives)

  1. An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

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Questions about causatives

What is causatives the plural of?
Causatives is the plural of causative.

Words near causatives in the dictionary

  1. causative
  2. causative verb
  3. causative verbs
  4. causatively
  5. causativeness
  6. causatives
  7. causativity
  8. causativization
  9. causativizations
  10. causativize
  11. causativized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: causatives (page history and authors); causative (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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