User:DCDuring/Cases and English prepositions
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| Case |
English prepositions |
Comment
|
| abessive case |
without |
-less
|
| ablative case |
away, away from, concerning |
-
|
| absolutive case |
NA |
patient (subject of intransitive verb)
|
| accusative case |
NA |
direct object
|
| adessive case |
near, at, by |
-
|
adnominal case
no WP, no OneLook |
- |
-
|
| w:agentive case |
- |
subject of transitive verb
|
| allative case |
to, onto |
-
|
| w:associative case |
with |
-
|
| benefactive case |
for |
-
|
| caritive case |
without |
-
|
| w:causal case |
because of? |
-
|
| w:causal-final case |
for the purpose of |
-
|
| w:causative case |
because of |
-
|
| comitative case |
with |
-
|
| comparative case |
like |
-
|
w:compellative case
No WP, No OneLook |
- |
-
|
w:conformative case
No WP, No OneLook |
- |
-
|
| dative case |
to (sometimes omitted after bitransitive verbs), for |
-
|
w:dedative case
deleted article |
- |
-
|
| delative case |
from, off, off of |
-
|
w:directional case
No WP, No OneLook |
- |
-
|
| w:disjunctive case |
- |
-
|
| w:distributive case |
per, for, etc. each, a ("a week") |
-
|
| w:distributive-temporal case |
by ("by day", "at night"), of a |
-s (adverbial genitive, "nights", "Sundays")
|
| elative case |
out of |
-
|
| equative case |
- |
-
|
| ergative case |
- |
agent of transitive verb
|
| essive case |
as |
temporary state
|
| essive-formal case |
- |
-
|
| essive-modal case |
- |
-
|
| factive case |
- |
-
|
| final case |
- |
-
|
| formal case |
- |
-
|
| genitive case |
of |
possession, origin
|
| illative case |
into |
-
|
| inclusive case |
- |
-
|
| inessive case |
in, inside |
-
|
| instructive case |
by means of |
-
|
| instrumental case |
by |
-
|
| instrumental-comitative case |
- |
-
|
| interactive case |
- |
-
|
| intransitive case |
- |
-
|
| introessive case |
- |
-
|
| lative case |
- |
-
|
| limitational case |
- |
-
|
| locative case |
in, on, at, by |
-
|
| modal case |
- |
-
|
| multiplicative case |
- |
-
|
| mutative case |
- |
-
|
| nominative case |
- |
subject, agent
|
| objective case |
- |
-
|
| oblique case |
- |
-
|
| oppositive case |
- |
-
|
| partitive case |
- |
some or any
|
| w:perlative case |
through, across, along |
-
|
| possessive case |
of |
's
|
| w:postpositional case |
- |
-
|
| predicative case |
- |
-
|
| prepositional case |
- |
-
|
| privative case |
without |
-
|
| prolative case |
by way of, by |
-
|
| prosecutive case |
along |
-
|
| w:purposive case |
- |
-
|
| w:relative case |
- |
-
|
| w:reportative case |
- |
-
|
| similative case |
- |
-
|
| w:situative case |
- |
-
|
| sociative case |
together with |
-
|
| w:stative case |
- |
-
|
| w:subessive case |
below, beneath, under |
-
|
| w:sublative case |
|
like subessive, but with movement
|
| substantive case |
- |
-
|
| superessive case |
on, atop |
-
|
| temporal case |
at |
point
|
| terminative case |
until, upto |
-
|
| translative case |
becoming |
-
|
| w:validative case |
- |
-
|
| vocative case |
- |
"O"
|
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