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- (grammar) With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction.
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (grammar) With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction.
- [Noun]
- (grammar) Ellipsis of ergative case (“a grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages”).
- (grammar) An ergative verb or other expression.
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