ergative

Meaning of ergative

adjective

relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g. Basque and Inuktitut) that identifies the doer of an action as the object rather than the subject of a verb.

noun

an ergative word.

1950s: from Greek ergatēs ‘worker’ (from ergon ‘work’) + -ive.

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Hyphenation of ergative

erga-tive

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • ergative is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of ergative

Words that rhyme with ergative

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