(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
Used in a Sentence
abessive
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for abessive.
Editorial note
Nominative, accusative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative or instructive?
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Quick take
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of abessive gathered in one view.
(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for abessive.
noun
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
adjective
(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
Example sentences
Nominative, accusative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative or instructive?
It's similar with the abessive ("without") case.
For example, the abessive case is used where English would use "without", the comitative for "together" or "with".
The abessive case of "juhita" is enough - "riik on juhita" - but in practice "ilma" is often included.
Finnish and Estonian are also agglutinative, and I feel abject horror reading about "essive", "comitative", "abessive" and other cases.
Quote examples
It's similar with the abessive ("without") case.
For example, the abessive case is used where English would use "without", the comitative for "together" or "with".
The abessive case of "juhita" is enough - "riik on juhita" - but in practice "ilma" is often included.
Finnish and Estonian are also agglutinative, and I feel abject horror reading about "essive", "comitative", "abessive" and other cases.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use abessive in a sentence?
Nominative, accusative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative or instructive?
What does abessive mean?
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
What part of speech is abessive?
abessive is commonly used as noun, adjective.