CAUSATIVE

Causative

In linguistics, a causative is a form that indicates that a subject causes someone or something else to do or be something, or causes a change in state of a non-volitional event.

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causative

Noun

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

Adjective

  1. Acting as a cause.
  2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal.
    The ablative is a causative case.


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