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Ingrammar, theintransitive case (abbreviatedINTR), also denominatedpassive case orpatient case, is agrammatical case used in some languages to mark theargument of anintransitive verb, but not used withtransitive verbs. It is generally seen in languages that displaytripartitenominal morphologies; it contrasts with thenominative andabsolutive cases employed in other languages' morphosyntax to mark the argument of intransitive clauses.
As a distinct intransitive case has zero marking[1] in all languages known to have one, and is the citation form of the noun, it is frequently calledabsolutive, a word used for an unmarked citation-form argument in various case systems.
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