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Adessive case
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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 |
In the Finnish language, Estonian language and Hungarian language the adessive case is the fourth of the locative cases with the basic meaning of "on". For example, Estonian laud (table) and laual (on the table).
In Finnish, the suffix is -lla/-llä, e.g. pöytä (table) and pöydällä (on the table). In addition, it can specify "being around the place", as in koululla (at the school including the schoolyard), as contrasted with the inessive koulussa (in the school, inside the building). The meaning distributes along time, too: "at his lunch break" is ruokatunnilla, whereas ruokatunnissa is "within a lunch break".
The other locative cases in Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are:
- Inessive case ("in")
- Elative case ("out of")
- Illative case ("into")
- Allative case ("onto")
- Ablative case ("from off of")
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