inessive
nounEtymology From in- (“in”) + essive.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The inessive case, or a word in that case.
inessive
adjEtymology From in- (“in”) + essive.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of or relating to the inessive case, a grammatical case that in some languages indicates the state of being in or inside a location.
- Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives.2015, Aet Lees, Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps, BRILL, →ISBN, page 272: