💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Privative case"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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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