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Translative case — This declension (case) indicates a change in state of a noun, with the general sense of becoming X or change to X .In the Finnish language, this is the counterpart of the Essive case, with the basic meaning of a change of state. It is also used… … Wikipedia
translative — 1. adjective a) of, or relating to the movement of a person or thing from one place to another b) of, or relating to the translation of language 2. noun a) the translative case … Wiktionary
translative — /trans lay tiv, tranz , trans lay , tranz /, adj. 1. of or pertaining to the transfer of something from one person, position, or place to another. 2. of translation; serving to translate. 3. Gram. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive… … Universalium
case — Synonyms and related words: Bible truth, Smyth sewing, abessive, ablative, absolute fact, accepted fact, accusative, action, actual fact, adessive, admitted fact, afghan, alien, allative, ammunition box, anyhow, anyway, apoplectic, approximative … Moby Thesaurus
Exessive case — The exessive case is a grammatical case that denotes a transition away from a state. It is a rare case found in certain dialects of Baltic Finnic languages. It completes the series of to/in/from a state series consisting of the translative case,… … Wikipedia
Grammatical case — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality … Wikipedia
Vocative case — For the assembly programming concept, see Addressing mode. The vocative case (abbreviated voc) is the case used for a noun identifying the person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed and/or occasionally the determiners of that noun. A vocative… … Wikipedia
Accusative case — The accusative case (abbreviated acc) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions. It is a noun that is having… … Wikipedia
Dative case — The dative case (abbreviated dat, or sometimes d when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to whom something is given, as in George gave Jamie a drink . In general, the dative marks the indirect object… … Wikipedia
Nominative case — The nominative case (abbreviated nom) is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb or the predicate noun or predicate adjective, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments.… … Wikipedia
