Equative

The equative is in some languages, a case that establishes a comparison to a noun. It is rendered in German with "wie".

In some languages, a degree of comparison of the adjectives is also referred to as equative, e.g. B. Welsh and Old Irish . In German this is represented as + positive + as .

Examples

• Greenlandic ( Eskimo-Aleut language):

  illu-tut - house-EQUATIVE - "like a house"

• Khasi ( Austro-Asian language):

  kum-ka-masī - EQUATIVE FEMININE beef - "like a cow"

• Sumerian ( isolated ancient oriental language):

  lugal-gin - King-EQUATIVE - "like a king"

• Turkish ( Turkic language ): the ending is -ce / çe or -ca / -ça according to the consonant and vowel harmony

  aptal-ca - stupid-EQUATIVE "like a stupid / stupid", "like a stupid / stupid"

  salak-ça - idiot-EQUATIVE "like a gate"

  erkek-çe - man-EQUATIVE "like a man"

  kadın-ca - woman-EQUATIVE "like a woman", "womanly"

• Hungarian ( Ural language):

  király-ként - King-EQUATIVE - "like a king"

literature

• Dr. Richard H. Kölbl: Greenlandic word for word . 1st edition. Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump GmbH, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89416-373-9 , p. 37 (There the case is called Äqualis . Its German translations are like; as .).