Captative verbs indicate catching and hunting of a specific animal or other target, e.g. English ''to fish''. Usually captatives are not separately marked, but some

Uralic languages The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) form a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (w ...

do this. Nenets, Sami languages and

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

have a captative marker for marking captative verbs; in Nenets, the marker is exclusively used for this purpose. For example,

Northern Sami Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ...

''murjet'' "to pick berries" is derived from ''muorji'' "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".

References

* Tapani Salminen
''Tundra Nenets grammatical sketch''
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