What does "lative" mean?

A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.

What is a synonym for "lative"?

Common synonyms include: case, nominative, prepositional.

Lative

//ˈleɪtɪv// adj, noun

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Noun

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A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case. uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms

case nominative prepositional

Etymology

Borrowed from French latif.

Related phrases

lative case

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