• In grammar, the essive case, or similaris case, (abbreviated ESS) is a grammatical case. The essive case on a noun can express it as a definite period...
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  • The essive-modal case is a case in the Hungarian language that expresses either the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has (essive...
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  • the Hungarian language the essive-formal case or formative case can be viewed as combining an essive case and a formal case, and it can express the position...
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  • adverbial case (abbreviated ADV) is a noun case in Abkhaz and Georgian with a function similar to that of the translative and essive cases in Finnic languages...
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  • "becoming X " or "change to X ". In Finnish, it is the counterpart of the essive case, with the basic meaning of a change of state. It is also used for expressing...
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  • state" series consisting of the translative case, the essive case and the exessive case. The exessive case has been described in Estonian, South Estonian...
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  • If the plural has another form than -i-, either joka (each) or the essive case is used. For example, uusi vuosi (New Year) is either joka uusi vuosi...
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  • precise inverse of the comitative case, and the two form a pair of complementary case forms. Essive case Inessive case Vajda, Edward (2024-02-19), Vajda...
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  • A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...
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  • it also took on the semantic functions of the essive case ("in the capacity of…") and similative case ("like a…"). In Sumerian, the equative was formed...
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  • the essive singular. NB the consonant stem used to be quite common in the essive, and some nouns and adjectives still have this feature. This case sometimes...
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  • the essive case, but is still found with a locative meaning in some fossilised expressions such as Finnish kotona "at home". Two new locative cases were...
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  • list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an...
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  • case, always marked by -ta. The month can also be written first, now in genitive case (the day and the abbreviated word päivä, 'day', are in essive case...
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  • described above for other languages and alternatively has been called "essive / translative", as it means "for [something else], as (being) [something...
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  • grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated NOM), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part...
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  • The partitive case (abbreviated PTV, PRTV, or more ambiguously PART) is a grammatical case which denotes "partialness", "without result", or "without specific...
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    In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus...
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  • In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated ACC) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb. In the English...
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  • is a grammatical case which indicates motion to a location. It corresponds to the English prepositions "to" and "into". The lative case belongs to the group...
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  • prepositional case (abbreviated PREP) and the postpositional case (abbreviated POST) - generalised as adpositional cases - are grammatical cases that respectively...
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  • In grammar, the superessive case (abbreviated SUPE) is a grammatical case indicating location on top of, or on the surface of something. Its name comes...
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    "at home", an exceptional form using the old, locative meaning of the essive case ending -na). Singular, dual, and plural possessive suffixes may be added...
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    the essive case, the latter the partitive case. This resulted in the rise of the telicity contrast of the object, which must be in the accusative case or...
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    In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced /ˈæblətɪv/ AB-lə-tiv; abbreviated abl) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars...
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  • in the essive singular of nominals, but these forms were often restored analogically. Finnish still possesses a few obsolete or fossilised cases of contracted...
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  • plural cases. However, in Hungarian there are possessed and not possessed plural cases. Since the possessor may also be plural, the plural case is marked...
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  • In grammar, the terminative or terminalis case (abbreviated TERM) is a case specifying a limit in space and time and also to convey the goal or target...
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  • objective case (abbr. OBJ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative. A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally...
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  • Grammar of Boumaa Fijian. U Chicago Press. Casper de Groot (2017) Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State Esther Pascual & Sergeiy Sandler...
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