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The antessive case (abbreviated ante)^[1] is used for marking the spatial relation of preceding or being before. The case is found in some Dravidian languages.

References

^ S. Agesthialingom, Prakya Sreesaila Subrahmanyam, Dravidian Linguistics- V: (proceedings of the Seminar on Dravidian Linguistics- V), Page 275, 1976 - 582 pages, Google book search link quote: "(6) 'before' (antessive), (7) 'behind, ..."

Grammatical cases

List of cases · Declension · Morphosyntactic alignment

Cases

Core	Absolutive · Accusative · Direct · Ergative · Intransitive · Nominative · Oblique

Adpositional	Ablative · Antessive · Dative · Distributive (–temporal) · Essive (–formal · –modal) · Formal · Genitive · Instructive · Instrumental (–comitative) · Ornative · Possessed · Possessive · Postpositional · Prepositional · Pertingent · Prolative · Prosecutive · Proximative · Sociative · Temporal · Vialis

Locative	Ablative · Adessive · Allative · Apudessive · Associative · Comitative · Delative · Elative · Exessive · Illative · Inelative · Inessive · Intrative · Lative · Locative · Perlative · Subessive · Sublative · Superessive · Superlative · Terminative · Translative

Comparative	Comparative · Equative

Evaluative	Aversive · Benefactive · Evitative

Other	Abessive · Addirective · Adelative · Adverbial · Caritive · Causal (–final) · Final · Modal · Multiplicative · Partitive · Pegative · Privative · Postelative · Postdirective · Postessive · Separative · Subdirective · Vocative

Declensions

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