Finnish
In Finnish, the lative case is largely obsolete. It still occurs in various adverbs, e.g., alas "down", kauemmas "(moving) farther off", pois "(going) away", and rannemmas "towards and closer to the shore". The lative suffix is usually -s.
In modern Finnish, it has been superseded by a more complicated system of locative cases and enclitics, when the original -s has merged with another lative or locative suffix, and turned into the modern inessive, elative, illative and even translative suffixes.
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