Adyghe also declines nouns into four different cases, each with corresponding suffixes: absolutive, ergative, instrumental, and invertive.
Verbs normally agree with their absolutive argument (intransitive subject or transitive object) in gender.
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For ergative–absolutive alignment, the direction of assignment is right to left, with absolutive preceding ergative.
Its case marking follows the ergative–absolutive pattern where the subject of an intransitive verb is in the absolutive case (which is unmarked), the same case being used for the direct object of a transitive verb.
The absolutive case marks the subject of an intransitive verb and the object of a transitive verb (see ergative languages).