{{Short description|Grammatical case}} {{More sources needed|date=December 2009}} In grammar, the '''intransitive case''' (abbreviated '''{{sc|intr}}'''), also denominated '''passive case''' or '''patient case''', is a grammatical case used in some languages to mark the argument of an intransitive verb, but not used with transitive verbs. It is generally seen in languages that display tripartite nominal morphologies; it contrasts with the nominative and absolutive cases employed in other languages' morphosyntax to mark the argument of intransitive clauses.
As a distinct intransitive case has zero marking<ref>{{Cite web| title=Typology of grammatical relations: Explanations in the typology of grammatical relations and alignment systems | url=https://ruts-journal.ruhosting.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/S.A.-Claassen-Typology-of-gramatical-relations-Explanations-in-the-typology-of-grammatical-relations-and-alignment-systems-1.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115134828/http://ruts-journal.ruhosting.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/S.A.-Claassen-Typology-of-gramatical-relations-Explanations-in-the-typology-of-grammatical-relations-and-alignment-systems-1.pdf | archive-date=2020-11-15}}</ref> in all languages known to have one, and is the citation form of the noun, it is frequently called '''absolutive''', a word used for an unmarked citation-form argument in various case systems.
==See also== *Transitive case *Nominative case *Absolutive case
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