intransitive case

In the intransitive case, the construct state is required for the subject.

The intransitive case is a grammatical case used in some languages to mark the argument of an intransitive verb, but not used with transitive verbs.

This is occasionally called the intransitive case, but absolutive is also used and is perhaps more accurate, since it is not limited to core agents of intransitive verbs.

Some others, called tripartite languages, use a separate case or syntax for each argument, which are conventionally called the accusative case, the intransitive case, and the ergative case.

As a distinct intransitive case has zero marking 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.

Most Australian Aboriginal languages, such as Dyirbal Certain Australian Aboriginal languages (e.g., Wangkumara) possess an intransitive case and an accusative case along with an ergative case, and lack an absolutive case; such languages are called ergative-accusative languages or tripartite languages.

Certain Iranian languages, such as Rushani, distinguish only transitivity (in the past tense), using a transitive case for both A and O, and an intransitive case for S. This is sometimes called a double-oblique system, as the transitive case is equivalent to the accusative in the non-past tense.