benefactive adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as "on behalf of", "in behalf of", "on one's behalf", or similar.Normally, the repeated benefactive suffix is not found after the telic form of the verbal stem — 1935 noun1 •A term or sentence element that serves a benefactive role or that is inflected for the benefactive case or a similar case (such as the dative case). formsbenefactives
