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Elative case
See Elative for disambiguation.
Elative is a locative case with the basic meaning "out of".
In Finnish elative is typically formed by adding "sta/stä", in Estonian - "st" to the genitive stem. In Hungarian suffix "ból/ből" is used for elative.
"talosta" - "out of the house, from house" (Finnish)
"majast" - "out of the house, from house" (Estonian)
"házból" - "out of house" (Hungarian)
Other locative cases are:
- Inessive case ("in")
- Illative case ("into")
- Adessive case ("on")
- Allative case ("onto")
- Ablative case ("from off of")
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