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comitative

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for comitative.

Editorial note

The specific examples you’ve given are, respectively, called the ‘comitative’ and ‘instrumental’ uses of with.

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Quick take

The comitative case, or a word in this case.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of comitative gathered in one view.

noun

The comitative case, or a word in this case.

adjective

(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that is used in some languages to indicate accompaniment.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for comitative.

noun

The comitative case, or a word in this case.

adjective

(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case that is used in some languages to indicate accompaniment.

Example sentences

1

The specific examples you’ve given are, respectively, called the ‘comitative’ and ‘instrumental’ uses of with.

2

These two categories are particularly prone to falling together, mostly because the boundaries between them aren’t particularly clear: for instance, if you say, I made the coffee with milk, you could say that the coffee is accompanied by the milk (comitative), but you could also say that you’re using the milk (instrumental).

3

Nominative, accusative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative or instructive?

4

For example, the abessive case is used where English would use "without", the comitative for "together" or "with".

5

Finnish and Estonian are also agglutinative, and I feel abject horror reading about "essive", "comitative", "abessive" and other cases.

Quote examples

1

For example, the abessive case is used where English would use "without", the comitative for "together" or "with".

2

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 comitative in a sentence?

The specific examples you’ve given are, respectively, called the ‘comitative’ and ‘instrumental’ uses of with.

What does comitative mean?

The comitative case, or a word in this case.

What part of speech is comitative?

comitative is commonly used as noun, adjective.