Inessive

The inessive is a grammatical local case that expresses the position in an object . He is one of the secondary local cases in Lithuanian , e.g. B. miške = in the forest. This case is not to be confused with the old Indo-European locative , which appears in Lithuanian only as a relic, e.g. B. namie (at home, locative) as opposed to name (in the house, inessive).

A local case named inessive also occurs in other languages :

• finn. talo "house"; kylä "village", but talo-ssa "in the house"; kylä-ssä "in the village"
• estn. maja "house"; küla "village", but maja-s "in the house"; küla-s "in the village"
• hungarian ház "house"; kert "garden", but ház-ban "in the house"; kert-ben "in the garden"
• mar. книга [kniga] "book", but книга-ла [kniga-la] "in the book"
• bask. etxea · n [ ɛtʃɛan ] "in the house"

literature

• Kauderwelsch Volume 15, Finnish word for word - plus dictionary, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8317-6458-7 , pp. 33–34.
• Martin Putz: Finnish grammar. Lulu Enterprises Inc. 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-0343-8 , pp. 74-75, 97.