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Privative case

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abessivenoun(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
abessive casenoun(grammar) A grammatical case used to express the lack or absence of something. It has the meaning of the English preposition without or the affix -less.
subessive casenoun(grammar) The grammatical case that is subessive.
essivenoun(grammar) the essive case, or a word in that case.
inessivenoun(grammar) The inessive case, or a word in that case.
ablativenoun(grammar) The ablative case.
ergative casenoun(grammar) A grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages.
absolutivenoun(grammar) The absolutive case, or a phrase that uses it.
privative adjectivenoun(grammar) An adjective indicating that a noun lacks some other noun, or a quality of that noun; usually formed in English by the affixation of the suffix -less or suffixoid -free to the noun that is absent.
accusativenoun(grammar) The accusative case.
adessivenoun(grammar) The adessive case, or a word in that case.
antessive casenoun(grammar) The grammatical case that indicates the spatial relation of preceding or being before something.
perlative(grammar) Describes a case, in very few inflected languages, that expresses movement through or along a referent noun, as "along" in "they travelled along the river".
inelative casenoun(grammar) The grammatical case that is inelative.
absolutive casenoun(grammar) case used to indicate the patient or experiencer of a verb’s action. The absolutive case is used to mark the subject of an intransitive verb, as well as the object of a transitive verb (inasmuch as they are codified in the English nominative-accusative system). Some languages that employ the absolutive case include Abkhaz, Basque, Chechen, Dyirbal, Hindi, Inuktitut, Hiligaynon, and Yup'ik.
privative anoun(grammar) An alpha privative.
translative(linguistics) Of, or relating to the translative case.
substantive genitivenoun(grammar) Synonym of independent genitive.
ablativitynoun(grammar) The nature of the ablative case.
alpha privativenoun(grammar) The prefix a- (or an- when prefixing a root which begins with a vowel) found in some English words of Greek derivation. It expresses negation or absence. The prefix has cognates in other Indo-European languages, including in- in Latin and un- in English, all traceable back to Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.

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