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Meanings of ergative case in English

Russian
эргатив
Portuguese
caso ergativo
Spanish
caso ergativo
Catalan
cas ergatiu

Grammatical case that identifies the subject of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive languages.

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эргатив

A grammatical case existing in several languages among which there are Basque, Georgian, Sumerian, Greenlandic, and Chechen, where it is used for the subjects of sentences having a subject and a direct object.

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