Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating placement within a location in some languages, as in Finnish Helsinkissä "in Helsinki."
n.
- The inessive case.
- A word or form in the inessive case.
Dictionary:
in·es·sive (ĭn'ĕs'ĭv) ![]() |
| Wikipedia: Inessive case |
|
|
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2007) |
Inessive case (from Latin inesse "to be in or at") is a locative grammatical case. This case carries the basic meaning of "in": for example, "in the house" is "talo·ssa" in Finnish, "maja·s" in Estonian, "etxea·n" in Basque, "nam·e" in Lithuanian and "ház·ban" in Hungarian.
In Finnish the inessive case is typically formed by adding "ssa/ssä". Estonian adds "s" to the genitive stem. In Hungarian, the suffix "ban/ben" is most commonly used for inessive case, although many others, such as -on, -en, -ön and others are also used, especially with cities.
In the Finnish language, the inessive case is considered the first of the six locative cases, which correspond to locational prepositions in English. The remaining five cases are:
| Look up inessive case in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
| Allative case | |
| Adessive case | |
| Livonian grammar |
| Name three problems that can occur in a bus iness when poor communication exist? Read answer... | |
| What does qui etes-vous you'nes i'ness mean? Read answer... |
| What does a mail packaging and supplies bus iness do? | |
| How do you find who owns a bus iness? | |
| How can customer service affect a bus iness? |
Copyrights:
![]() | Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more | |
![]() | Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Inessive case". Read more |