agentifcommon nounSyllable DecompositionagentifEtymologyexpandsee agent, -if and see active and acting.Definition1. Designates the case expressing the agent complement, that is, the agent actant who performs the action but is not the grammatical subject of the verb in the passive diathesis. For example, in "the cake was eaten by Pierre", Pierre would be in the agentif. In some languages, this case is expressed by a specific affix.linguistiqueexpandPluralagentifsTranslationsenglish:agentive
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