"Transitive verb" Quotes from Famous Books
... has the nominative, nominative-agent, genitive, accusative, instrumental, dative and ablative cases. In the nominative, there is no change in the noun, except when it is the subject of a transitive verb, and then it requires the agent-suffix; as, Wuthung wirrungan burdumin, a man a dog beat; leuru wirringal kurgin, a woman a perch caught; wirrunganu gure bundin, a dog a ... — The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales • Robert Hamilton Mathews |