Adessive

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The adessive case, or a word in that case.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location. not-comparable

    "Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives."

Synonyms

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casenominativeprepositional

Example

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"Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives."

Etymology

From ad- (“at”) + essive.

Related phrases

adessive case

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