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Definition of Causatives
1. causative [n] - See also: causative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Causatives
Literary usage of Causatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Masai: Their Language and Folklore by Alfred Claud Hollis (1905)
"causatives. The rule for the formation of causatives is that all verbs which
commence with any letter except i or e take the prefix it followed by a vowel, ..."
2. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"These are the forms used sometimes as causatives, intensives m sometimes as
intensives or frequenta- n°' ..."
3. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1889)
"... from causatives, which appear in fair numbers (in no small part, it is true,
only in derivative noun-stems); and the passives from causatives, ..."
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