Local Cases With Adverbs
The fourth set of local case suffixes (etymologically the primary forms) are incorporated into the place adverbs, giving the following (partly irregular) forms:
| Demonstrative | Interrogative 'where?' |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 'here' | 'there (near)' | 'there (distant)' | |||
| Inessive | 'here, there, where?' | hemen | hor | han | non |
| Allative | 'to here, to there, where to?' | hona | horra | hara | nora |
| Ablative | 'from here/there, where from?', 'this/that way, which way?' | hemendik | hortik | handik | nondik |
| Genitive | 'pertaining to here/there/where?' | hemengo | horko | hango | nongo |
Many other adverbs may be adjectivalised with -ko. Some may take certain other case suffixes (usually from set 4), particularly ablative -tik/-dik, e.g. atzotik 'since yesterday', urrundik 'from far away'.
Read more about this topic: Basque Grammar, Noun Phrase, Declension
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