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reportatives

reportatives is the plural of reportative.

Meaning of reportative

Noun

reportative (plural reportatives)

  1. A grammatical construct used in some languages when reporting something learned from somebody else.
    • The child's progress in the modification stage can be characterized as an advancement from the use of performatives to the use of reportatives.1976, Barbara S. Wood, Children and Communication: Verbal and Nonverbal Language Development

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Questions about reportatives

What is reportatives the plural of?
Reportatives is the plural of reportative.

Words near reportatives in the dictionary

  1. reportable
  2. reportage
  3. reportages
  4. reportative
  5. reportatively
  6. reportatives
  7. reportativity
  8. reportback
  9. reportbacks
  10. reported
  11. reported back

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