Elative Case

See Elative for disambiguation.

Elative (abbreviated ELA; from Latin efferre "to bring or carry out") is a locative case with the basic meaning "out of".

In Finnish elative is typically formed by adding "sta/stä", in Estonian by adding "st" to the genitive stem. In Hungarian the suffix "ból/ből" is used for elative.

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

In some dialects of Spoken Finnish it is common to drop the last vowel and thus the usage of elative resembles that of Estonian, for example "talost' ".

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")
Grammatical cases
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  • Declension
  • Morphosyntactic alignment
Cases
Morphosyntactic alignment
  • Absolutive
  • Accusative
  • Direct
  • Ergative
  • Intransitive
  • Nominative
  • Oblique
  • Partitive
  • Pegative
Location, time, direction
  • Ablative
  • Addirective
  • Adelative
  • Adessive
  • Allative
  • Antessive
  • Apudessive
  • Delative
  • Distantitive
  • Distributive (–temporal)
  • Egressive
  • Elative
  • Illative
  • Inelative
  • Inessive
  • Initiative
  • Intrative
  • Lative
  • Locative
  • Medial
  • Perlative
  • Pertingent
  • Postdirective
  • Postelative
  • Postessive
  • Prolative
  • Prosecutive
  • Proximative
  • Separative
  • Subdirective
  • Subelative
  • Subessive
  • Sublative
  • Superdirective
  • Superelative
  • Superessive
  • Superlative
  • Temporal
  • Terminative
  • Vialis
Possession, companion, instrument
  • Abessive
  • Associative
  • Caritive
  • Comitative
  • Dative
  • Genitive
  • Instrumental (–comitative)
  • Ornative
  • Possessed
  • Possessive
  • Privative
  • Sociative
State, manner
  • Adverbial
  • Comparative
  • Equative
  • Essive (–formal, –modal)
  • Exessive
  • Formal
  • Identical
  • Instructive
  • Modal
  • Multiplicative
  • Orientative
  • Revertive
  • Semblative
  • Translative
Cause, purpose
  • Aversive
  • Benefactive
  • Causal (–final)
  • Evitative
  • Final
Other
  • Dubitive
  • Postpositional
  • Prepositional
  • Vocative
Declensions
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  • Gothic
  • Irish
  • Latin
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Serbo-Croatian
  • Slovak

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