English
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Noun
ergative case
#grammar: case used to indicate the agent of a verb. The ergative case is used to mark the subject of a transitive verb, while the subject of an intransitive verb is put in the absolutive case. Some languages that employ the ergative case include Basque, Chechen, Dyirbal, Georgian, Hindi, Inuktitut, Samoan, Tibetan, and Yup'ik.
Translations
Dutch: ergatief m
Esperanto: ergativo
Finnish: ergatiivi
French: cas ergatif m
German: Ergativ m
Hungarian: ergativus
Italian: caso ergativo m
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Japanese: è�½æ ¼ (ã�®ã��ã��ã��, nÅ�kaku)
Latin: casus ergativus m
Novial: ergative
Portuguese: caso ergativo m
Russian: Ñ�Ñ�гаÑ�ивнÑ�й падеж (ergatÃvnyj padéž) m
Spanish: caso ergativo m
Related terms
absolutive case
See also
Appendix:Grammatical cases
w:Ergative-absolutive_language|Wikipedia article on Ergative-absolutive languages
fr:ergative case
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