In grammar, the elative case (abbreviated ; from "to bring or carry out") is a locative grammatical case signifying that something comes from something, somewhere or someone.
Usage
Uralic languages
In Finnish, the elative is typically formed by adding , in Estonian by adding to the genitive stem, in Livonian and in Erzya. In Hungarian, the suffix expresses the elative:
See also
Other locative cases are:
- Inessive case ("in")
- Superessive case ("on")
- Adessive case ("by/at")
- Illative case ("into")
- Sublative case ("onto")
- Allative case ("towards")
- Ablative case ("away from")
- Delative case ("off")