
Agentives

Translation agentives into russian
agentive
Nounagentives
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agentive
agentives pl
The agentive in the sentence refers to the doer of the action.
Агентив в предложении относится к исполнителю действия.
Definitions
agentive
AdjectiveRelating to or denoting a grammatical agent, typically the subject of a verb, which performs the action of the verb.
In the sentence 'The cat chased the mouse,' 'the cat' is the agentive noun performing the action.
agentive
NounA linguistic term referring to a word or form that indicates an agent, or the doer of an action.
In the sentence 'The runner won the race,' the word 'runner' is an agentive noun.