Local case

The local case is a grammatical case that expresses position or movement. There are relatively many local cases in the Finno-Ugric languages . In the modern East Baltic languages ​​( Latvian , Lithuanian ) secondary local cases have developed that did not exist in Indo-European , from which these languages ​​developed.

In Finnish and Estonian there are three inner and three outer local cases, while Hungarian even has a third group. The three inner local cases are: Inessive , Illative and Elative . The three outer local cases are adessive , allative and ablative . In Finnish, however, three other cases can have locative meanings, namely partitive , essive and translative . In this case, however, they mainly occur with adverbs and postal positions .

literature

• Martin Putz: Finnish grammar. Lulu Enterprises Inc. 2008, ISBN 978-1-4092-0343-8 , pp. 71ff.
• Kauderwelsch Volume 55, Estonian word for word, 6th edition, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89416-806-3 , p. 51.