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Case: case

Nom: nominative

The base form, typically used as a citation form (lemma).

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Acc: accusative

In many languages used for direct objects of verbs.

We follow ISK in not recognizing the accusative except for the personal pronouns and kuka “who” (http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/sisallys.php?p=1221, http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/sisallys.php?p=1226)

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Gen: genitive

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Ins: instructive

Instructive primarily characterizes manner or instrument. Instructive can also express place or time.

Corresponds to some uses of English by means of or with the aid of.

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Par: partitive

In Finnish the partitive case is an object case that can also express indefinite quantity or unfinished actions.

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Ess: essive

Essive is typically a case of temporal adverbials (e.g. tiistaina “on Tuesday”). In expressions of state, essive is a case of predicative adverbials, characterizing purpose or task (e.g. vartijana “as a guard”) in intransitive forms, and how an object or its purpose is perceived in transitive forms (e.g. syödä raakana “eat raw”).

Essive corresponds to some uses of English as a.

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Tra: translative

In intransitive sentences, the translative case typically expresses change of state (becomes, changes to) or manner.

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In transitive sentences, the translative case describes the sentence object.

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Com: comitative / associative

The comitative (also called associative) case expresses belonging, a social relationship or a part of an entity. It often corresponds to English together with and has a descriptive or explicative function.

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Abe: abessive

The abessive case expresses wihtout what something has happened and roughly corresponds to the English preposition without.

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Ine: inessive

The inessive case expresses location inside of something.

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Ill: illative

The illative case expresses direction into something.

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Ela: elative

The elative case expresses direction out of something.

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Ade: adessive

The adessive cases expresses location on the outer or upper surface of an entity, or movement to/from such a surface. The corresponding directional cases are allative (towards something) and ablative (from something).

(Note: this is a very incomplete listing of the uses of the Finnish adessive, which can also express place, time, state, owner, instrument, means, manner, and quantity.)

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All: allative

The allative case expresses direction onto something (destination is adessive).

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Abl: ablative

Prototypical meaning: direction from some point.

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Notes: distributive

Some descriptions of Finnish recognize a distributive case conveying that something happens to every member of a set, one at a time. UD Finnish does not include Dis (distributive) as a possible value of the Case feature, but analyses the -ttain suffix as an adverbial derivation.

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Lat: lative

Some descriptions of Finnish mark the base form of the first infinitive as being in the lative case (see e.g. Omorfi tagger documentation). The Finnish UD treebanks follow ISK in not recognizing the lative case, with the exception of FinnTreeBank, which currently marks this form as Case=Lat.

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FinnTreeBank (FI_FTB) marks the base form of the first infinitive as lative in contrast to translative.

Case in other languages: [am] [apu] [arr] [bej] [bg] [cs] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [ga] [gn] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [ka] [kmr] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj]