anticausative

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ causative.

Adjective

anticausative (not comparable)

  1. (grammar, of an intransitive verb) Which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause.

Translations

Noun

anticausative (plural anticausatives)

  1. (grammar) A verb or construction of this kind.

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