Delative

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The delative case is a local cases , which indicates the movement of the surface of a reference object away.

The term delative for this local case is mainly used in the grammar of Hungarian , where the delative is marked by the suffix -ról / ről : hajó- ról 'vom Schiff' ( hajó 'ship'), bokor- ról 'vom Strauch' ( bokor 'shrub'), vég- ről 'from the end' ( vég 'end'). The delative is semantically related to the sublative (“moving towards the surface of a reference object”) and the superessive (“position on the surface of a reference object”).

Etymology: Latin delatus "carried down" (ie "case of carrying down").