English-Finnish translations for elative

  • elatiiviElatiivin vokaalisoinnun mukaan.Poika-sanan elatiivi on pojasta — pojasta polvi paranee
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Definition of elative

  • In Semitic languages, the “adjective degree of superiority.” In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the '''elative'''. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.”
  • In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” or “from” as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian házból . Its opposite is the illative case . In Finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in English is often conveyed by the word '''"about"'''

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