causatif
French, noun/ko.za.tif/
causatif is spelled C-A-U-S-A-T-I-F (8 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Causatif is a French masculine noun meaning “causative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Voix ou construction grammaticale qui sert à transcrire une action que le sujet fait exécuter par un autre…”.
What does causatif mean in English?
adjective
- 1
causative
noun
- 1
masculinecausative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui indique la cause. 2. Causal.
noun: 1. Voix ou construction grammaticale qui sert à transcrire une action que le sujet fait exécuter par un autre élément que lui-même. En français, il s’exprime sous la forme faire + verbe. 2. Cas de la déclinaison des noms exprimant la cause de l’action décrite par le verbe de la phrase.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of causatif
- causative feminine
- causatifs masculine plural
- causatives feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce causatif?
- /ko.za.tif/
- \ko.za.tif\
- [ko.za.tif]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to causatif
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is causatif in French?
causatif appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).