noncausative

A rare, technical adjective used in linguistics to describe a verb or construction that does not express a cause or causation.

• 🇵🇹Adjetivo técnico raro usado na linguística para descrever um verbo ou construção que não expressa causa ou relação de causa e efeito.

1. Not causative C2 formal

   Describing a verb or action that does not cause something to happen; the subject does not initiate the action.

   • In the sentence 'The window broke,' the verb 'broke' is noncausative.
   • Noncausative verbs describe a state or change without an external agent.
   • The distinction between causative and noncausative verbs is important in linguistics.

   🇵🇹Não causativo

   Sinônimos: noncausal

   Antônimos: causative