Elative case

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In grammar, the elative case (abbreviated ELA; from Latin: efferre "to bring or carry out") is a locative grammatical case with the basic^{[clarification needed]} meaning "out of".

Usage[]

Uralic languages[]

In Finnish, the elative is typically formed by adding sta/stä", in Estonian by adding -st to the genitive stem and -õst in Livonian. In Hungarian, the suffix -ból/-ből expresses the elative:

talosta - "out of the house, from the house" (Finnish talo = "house")
taloista - "out of the houses, from the houses" (Finnish talot = "houses")
majast - "out of the house, from the house" (Estonian maja = "house")
házból - "out of the house" (Hungarian ház = "house")

In some dialects of colloquial 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: talost.

Russian[]

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

See also[]

Look up elative case in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Other locative cases are:

• Inessive case ("in")
• Illative case ("into")
• Adessive case ("on")
• Allative case ("onto")
• Ablative case ("off")
• Delative case ("off of a surface")

Further reading[]

• Karlsson, Fred (2018). Finnish - A Comprehensive Grammar. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-82104-0.
• Anhava, Jaakko (2015). "Criteria For Case Forms in Finnish and Hungarian Grammars". journal.fi. Helsinki: Finnish Scholarly Journals Online.