There are many ergative languages in the world and Basque is one of them.
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Ergative
//ˈɜːɡətɪv//
Synonyms for "ergative" (2 found)
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10 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 22 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- ergatief adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Aragonese
1 entries- ergativo adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Asturian
1 entries- ergativu adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Basque
1 entries- ergatibo adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Catalan
1 entries- ergatiu adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 能格 adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
- 能格 noun (ergative verb or other expression)
Czech
1 entries- ergativ adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Danish
1 entries- ergativ adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Dutch
2 entries- ergatief adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
- ergatief noun (ergative verb or other expression)
Esperanto
1 entries- ergativo adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Extremaduran
1 entries- ergativu adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
French
2 entries- ergatif adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
- ergatif noun (ergative verb or other expression)
Galician
1 entries- ergativo adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
German
2 entries- ergativ adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
- ergativisch adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Indonesian
1 entries- ergativus adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Italian
2 entries- ergativo adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
- ergativo noun (ergative verb or other expression)
Japanese
2 entries- 能格 adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
- 能格 noun (ergative verb or other expression)
Korean
1 entries- 능격 noun (ergative verb or other expression)
Polish
3 entries- ergatywny adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
- ergativus noun (ergative verb or other expression)
- ergatyw noun (ergative verb or other expression)
Portuguese
1 entries- ergativo adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Spanish
1 entries- ergativo adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Zazaki
1 entries- ergativ adj (with the subjects of transitive constructions having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of from intransitive constructions)
Sample sentences
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There are many ergative languages in the world, and Basque is one of them.
Source: tatoeba (2289612)
In the Basque language there is the case of the ergative nominative.
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In Basque, the active subject should have an ergative case marker.
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