Elative case
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The elative (abbreviated ELA; from Latin efferre "to bring or carry out") is a locative case with the basic[clarification needed] meaning "out of".
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Uralic languages[edit]
In Finnish, the elative is typically formed by adding "sta/stä", in Estonian by adding "-st" to the genitive stem. In Hungarian, the suffix "-ból/-ből" expresses the elative:
"talosta" - "out of the house, from the house" (Finnish "talo" = "house")
"majast" - "out of the house, from the house" (Estonian "maja" = "house")
"házból" - "out of the house" (Hungarian "ház" = "house")
In some dialects of colloquial 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: "talost".
Russian[edit]
In some rare cases the elative still exists in contemporary Russian, though it was used more widely in 17-18th cc. texts: и́з лесу (out of the forest), кровь и́з носу (blood from the nose), из Яросла́влю (from Yaroslavl).
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Other locative cases are:
- Inessive case ("in")
- Illative case ("into")
- Adessive case ("on")
- Allative case ("onto")
- Ablative case ("off")
- Delative case ("off of a surface")
