Captative verbs indicate catching and hunting of a specific animal or other target, e.g. Englishto fish.
Usually captatives are not separately marked, but someUralic languages do this.Nenets,Sami languages andFinnish have a captative marker for marking captative verbs; in Nenets, the marker is exclusively used for this purpose. For example,Northern Samimurjet "to pick berries" is derived frommuorji "berry". Also, Finnish has captative verbs marked by-sta-, e.g.marja/sta/a "to pick berries",kala/sta/a "to fish",metsä/stä/ä "to hunt".
