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Acting as a cause. / Involving, or affected by, causality. / (linguistics) Expressing a cause or causation.

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causative

Source Word

causative

IPA(Pronunciation)

Adjective

not-comparable

Acting as a cause. / Involving, or affected by, causality. / (linguistics) Expressing a cause or causation.

Japanese Meaning

原因となる、もしくは原因をなす / 因果関係に関与する、またはその影響を受ける / (言語学) 使役（ある動作を誰かにさせる）を表す

The causative factor in the experiment surprised the research team.

実験で原因となった要因は研究チームを驚かせた。

Sense（1）

Acting as a cause.

Causative in nature of a number of effects.

Sense（2）

Involving, or affected by, causality.

Sense（3）

(linguistics) Expressing a cause or causation.

The ablative is a causative case.