1. relating to or expressing the agent or doer of an action
Usage: linguistics

1. a word or form that expresses the agent or doer of an action
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The suffix ‘-er’ creates agentive nouns like ‘teacher’ and ‘writer’.
• In linguistics, agentive forms indicate who performs an action.
• The word ‘driver’ is an agentive derived from the verb ‘drive’.
• Agentive constructions emphasize the person doing the action.
• The agentive ‘baker’ comes from the verb ‘bake’.
• Students learned to identify agentive suffixes in English.
• The agentive form shows who is responsible for the action.