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abessive_case

abessive case

English

Noun

abessive case ‎(plural abessive cases)

(grammar): case used to express the lack or absence of something. It has the meaning of the English preposition "without" or the affix -less. Some languages that use the abessive case are Erzya, Estonian, Finnish, and Inari Sami.

Synonyms

caritive case

Translations

case used to express the lack of something

Chinese:
Mandarin: 欠格 ‎(qiàngé)
Dutch: abessief (nl) m
Finnish: vajanto (fi), abessiivi (fi)
French: abessif (fr) m
German: Abessiv (de) m
Hungarian: abessivus
Icelandic: fjarverufall (is) n
Italian: caso abessivo m

Japanese: 欠格 ‎(けっかく, kekkaku)
Latin: casus abessivus m
Novial: abesive
Portuguese: caso abessivo m
Russian: абесси́в (ru) m ‎(abessív)
Spanish: caso abesivo m
Votic: abessiivi

See also

Appendix:Grammatical cases