noun
- verbs or verb forms that express the idea of causing someone or something to do an action
Usage: linguistics; grammar
Examples
- In English, causatives like ‘make’ and ‘have’ show that someone causes an action.
- The teacher explained how causatives work in different languages.
- Students struggled to understand the difference between causatives and regular verbs.
- ‘Let,’ ‘make,’ and ‘have’ are common causatives in English grammar.
- The linguistics textbook had a chapter dedicated to causatives.
- Many languages use special verb forms to create causatives.