Meaning Of The Word Agentive

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agentive in American English
an agentive form or affix, as the suffix -er in roller
of or producing a grammatical form that denotes the doer of a given action or the means of bringing about a given result
adjective: pertaining to, or productive of, a form that indicates an agent or agency
noun: an agentive word or suffix

agentive in British English
adjective: (in some inflected languages) denoting a case of nouns, etc, indicating the agent described by the verb
noun: the agentive case

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