abessive case

English

Noun

abessive case (plural abessive cases)

1. (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.

   Languages that use the abessive case include Erzya, Estonian, Finnish, Northern Sámi, and Inari Sami.

Synonyms

• caritive case

Translations

case used to express the lack of something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欠格 (qiàngé)

• Dutch: abessief (nl) m
• Finnish: abessiivi (fi), vajanto (fi)
• French: abessif (fr) m
• German: Abessiv (de) m
• Hungarian: abessivus
• Icelandic: fjarverufall (is) n

• Italian: caso abessivo m
• Japanese: 欠格 (けっかく, kekkaku)
• Latin: casus abessivus m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: abessiv m

• Novial: abesive
• Portuguese: caso abessivo m
• Russian: абесси́в (ru) m (abessív)
• Spanish: caso abesivo m
• Votic: abessiivi

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases