absolute state (English, noun)
expansion: absolute state (plural absolute states)
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glosses: In Semitic languages, the condition of a noun not being grammatically linked to another noun – where it would use the construct state.
To sum the indeterminate state and the determinate state in one term.
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glosses: In Semitic languages, the condition of a noun not being grammatically linked to another noun – where it would use the construct state.
To denote the only state not construct state as in the binary state system of Ugaritic.
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glosses: In Semitic languages, the condition of a noun not being grammatically linked to another noun – where it would use the construct state.
Denotes the indeterminate state in Aramaic, even though it also has a determinate state called emphatic state.
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glosses: In Semitic languages, the condition of a noun not being grammatically linked to another noun – where it would use the construct state.
Denotes an infrequent endingless state in Akkadian used for predicative sentences, adverbially used nouns and vocative expressions (in which cases Arabic would use the accusative case), contrasting with the governed state and the construct state.
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glosses: In Egyptian, including Coptic, a form of a verb necessitated by its regimen if this does not require the nominal state or pronominal state.
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glosses: In Berber languages, an unmarked form and hence citation form of a noun similar to the absolutive of ergative languages, varying in usage cases per specific language but generally described as used for topicalized subjects of sentences – default word order being VSO –, nominal predicates and direct objects.
Forms:
form: absolute states
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