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Excessive case
Grammatical cases |
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List of grammatical cases |
Abessive case |
Ablative case |
Absolutive case |
Adessive case |
Allative case |
Causal case |
Causal-final case |
Comitative case |
Dative case |
Dedative case |
Delative case |
Disjunctive case |
Distributive case |
Distributive-temporal case |
Elative case |
Essive case |
Essive-formal case |
Essive-modal case |
Excessive case |
Final case |
Formal case |
Genitive case |
Illative case |
Inessive case |
Instructive case |
Instrumental case |
Lative case |
Locative case |
Modal case |
Multiplicative case |
Oblique case |
Objective case |
Partitive case |
Possessive case |
Postpositional case |
Prepositional case |
Prolative case |
Prosecutive case |
Separative case |
Sociative case |
Sublative case |
Superessive case |
Temporal case |
Terminative case |
Translative case |
Vialis case |
Vocative case |
Morphosyntactic alignment |
Absolutive case |
Accusative case |
Ergative case |
Instrumental case |
Instrumental-comitative case |
Intransitive case |
Nominative case |
Declension |
Declension in English |
The excessive case is a grammatical case, which denotes a transition away from a state. It is a rare case found in certain dialects of Balto-Finnic languages . It completes the series of "to/in/from a state" series consisting of the translative case, the essive case and the excessive case.
Finnish
The excessive is found only in Savo and southeastern dialects; speakers from other regions do not recognise it. Its ending is -nta/ntä. For example, tärähtäneentä terveeksi = "from looney to healthy", or a state change from mental illness to mental health.
Estonian
In the general pattern of the loss of a final vowel when compared to Finnish, the Estonian excessive ending is -nt. For example, tagant = from behind (something).
A Finnish text on the dialectal excessive: http://www.kotus.fi/julkaisut/ikkunat/2003/kielii2003_7.shtml