Definition & Meaning | English word EQUATIVE
EQUATIVE
Definitions of EQUATIVE
- (grammar) A construction showing an equal quality. In English, this is normally formed using as. For example, the equative of happy is as happy as.
- (grammar) A word in the equative form.
- (grammar) A grammatical case in certain languages, including Ossetic and Sumerian, that indicates something is like something else. English equivalents include he was the same age as her and he looks like him.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining to, or being an equative.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using EQUATIVE in a Sentence
- A unique feature of the thematic equative is its conveying of a meaning of exclusiveness in the rheme.
- Nouns and adjectives share the same morphology and distinguish two numbers (singular and plural) and nine cases: nominative, genitive, dative, directive, ablative, inessive, adessive, equative, and comitative.
- Mikkelsen, on the other hand, maintains the distinction between specificational and equative clauses, but suggests that the identificational class be eliminated.
- Negation in verbless equative clauses is marked by the irrealis marker mo or mu followed by the negative marker tei.
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