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English
Etymology
From anti- + causative.
Adjective
anticausative (not comparable)
- (grammar, of an intransitive verb) Which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause.
Translations
which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause
Noun
anticausative (plural anticausatives)
- (grammar) A verb or construction of this kind.
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