In grammar, the elative case (abbreviated ; from "to bring or carry out") is a locative grammatical case signifying that something comes from something, somewhere or someone.

Usage

Uralic languages

In Finnish, the elative is typically formed by adding , in Estonian by adding to the genitive stem, in Livonian and in Erzya. In Hungarian, the suffix expresses the elative:

1. - "out of the house, from the house" (Finnish = "house") - "out of the houses, from the houses" (Finnish = "houses")

2. - "out of the house, from the house" (Estonian = "house")

3. Erzya: - "out of the house, from the house" (Erzya = "house")

4. - "out of the house" (Hungarian = "house")

In some dialects of Finnish it is common to drop the final vowel of the elative ending, which then becomes identical to the elative morpheme of Estonian; for example: . This pronunciation is common in southern Finland, appearing in the southwestern dialects and in some Tavastian dialects. Most other dialects use the standard form -sta.

Russian

In some rare cases the elative still exists in contemporary Russian, though it was used more widely in 17-18th cc. texts: (out of the forest), (blood from the nose), (from Yaroslavl).

See also

Other locative cases are:

• Inessive case ("in")

• Superessive case ("on")

• Adessive case ("by/at")

• Illative case ("into")

• Sublative case ("onto")

• Allative case ("towards")

• Ablative case ("away from")

• Delative case ("off")

References

Further reading