allative case

English

Noun

allative case (plural allative cases)

1. (grammar) A case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositions to or onto, as in "to the house," "onto the house." Languages that use the allative case include Basque, Dyirbal, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and Lithuanian.

Translations

case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something

• Basque: adlatibo
• Bulgarian: алатив (alativ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 向格 (zh) (xiànggé)

• Dutch: allatief (nl) m
• Esperanto: alativo (eo)
• Estonian: alaleütlev (et), allatiiv (et)
• Finnish: allatiivi (fi), ulkotulento (fi)
• French: allatif (fr) m
• German: Allativ (de) m
• Hungarian: allativus (hu)
• Icelandic: tilgangsfall (is) n
• Ingrian: allativa
• Italian: caso allativo m
• Japanese: 向格 (ja) (こうかく, kōkaku)
• Latin: cāsus allātīvus m
• Lithuanian: aliatyvas (lt) m
• Livonian: allatīv
• Norwegian: allativ

  Norwegian Nynorsk: allativ

• Polish: allatyw (pl) m
• Portuguese: alativo (pt) m, caso alativo m
• Russian: аллати́вный паде́ж m (allatívnyj padéž), аллати́в (ru) m (allatív)
• Sanskrit: द्वितीया विभक्ति f (dvitīyā vibhakti)
• Spanish: caso alativo m
• Swedish: allativ (sv) c
• Venetan: ałativo
• Votic: allatiivi

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases