Noun

1. : case used to indicate the patient or experiencer of a verb’s action. The absolutive case is used to mark the subject of an intransitive verb, as well as the object of a transitive verb (inasmuch as they are codified in the English nominative-accusative system). Some languages that employ the absolutive case include Abkhaz, Basque, Chechen, Dyirbal, Hindi, Inuktitut, Navajo, and Yup'ik.

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases
• Wikipedia article on Ergative-absolutive languages
• Wikipedia article on Nominative-absolutive languages