adjective Grammar.
- pertaining to, or productive of, a form that indicates an agent or agency.
- (in case grammar) pertaining to the semantic role or case of a noun phrase that indicates the volitional or primary causer of the action expressed by a verb.
noun
- an agentive word or suffix.
- the agentive case.
adjective
- (in some inflected languages) denoting a case of nouns, etc, indicating the agent described by the verb
- (of a speech element) indicating agency“-er” in “worker” is an agentive suffix
noun
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- the agentive case
- a word or element in the agentive case