Elative case

In grammar, the elative case (abbreviated Template:Sc; from Template:Langx "to bring or carry out") is a locative grammatical case signifying that something comes from something, somewhere or someone.

Usage

Uralic languages

In Finnish, the elative is typically formed by adding Template:Wikt-lang, in Estonian by adding Template:Wikt-lang to the genitive stem, in Livonian and in Erzya. In Hungarian, the suffix Template:Wikt-lang expresses the elative:

Template:Langx - "out of the house, from the house" (Finnish = "house") - "out of the houses, from the houses" (Finnish = "houses")

Template:Langx - "out of the house, from the house" (Estonian = "house")

Erzya: - "out of the house, from the house" (Erzya = "house")

Template:Langx - "out of the house" (Hungarian = "house")

In some dialects of Finnish it is common to drop the final vowel of the elative ending, which then becomes identical to the elative morpheme of Estonian; for example: . This pronunciation is common in southern Finland, appearing in the southwestern dialects and in some Tavastian dialects. Most other dialects use the standard form -sta.

Russian

In some rare cases the elative still exists in contemporary Russian, though it was used more widely in 17-18th cc. texts: (out of the forest), (blood from the nose), (from Yaroslavl).

See also

Template:Sister project Other locative cases are:

• Inessive case ("in")
• Superessive case ("on")
• Adessive case ("by/at")
• Illative case ("into")
• Sublative case ("onto")
• Allative case ("towards")
• Ablative case ("away from")
• Delative case ("off")