The comitative case ( abbreviated ), also known as the associative case ( abbreviated ), is a grammatical case that denotes companionship, and is used where English would typically use preposition " with " in the sense of " in company with " or " together with " ( other uses of " with ," e. g. with the meaning of " using ," " by means of " ( I cut bread with a knife ) would correspond to the instrumental case or related cases ).

In the Estonian language singular comitative is formed by adding the suffix '- ga ' to the genitive in case of singular:

In the Estonian language comitative is also used to denote when something is used as an implement-kirvega ( with axe / using an axe ) or as a means of transport laevaga ( by boat ).

In the Finnish language, the comitative is rare and seldom used in spoken Finnish.

) In some variants ( e. g. Vaasa, Kymenlaakso ) of spoken Finnish-n kanssa is abbreviated into a clitic that is effectively a comitative case, e. g. -nkans or-nkaa.

In the Norwegian language it is called ' kofte ', most probably due to the word " gákti " being somewhat similar to the word ' kofte ' in the accusative, genitive, locative and comitative case ( gávtti / gaftti, gávtti / gaftti, gávttis / gafttis, gávtiin / gafttijn ).

The ending-tjara is the comitative suffix and means ' having '.

Meänkieli lacks two of the grammatical cases used in standard Finnish-the comitative and the instructive ( they are used mostly in literary, official language in Finland ).

In Portuguese and Spanish, some personal pronouns merged with the preposition with ( com in Portuguese and con in Spanish ) to form what can be considered as comitative case declensions of the pronouns.

* nina ( nominative: nose ) → nina ( genitive: of nose ) → ninaga ( comitative: with a nose )

* koer ( nominative: dog ) → koera ( genitive: of dog ) → koeraga ( comitative: with a dog )

* leht ( nominative: leaf, page ) → lehte ( partitive: leaf ) → lehtede ( genitive: of leaves ) → lehtedega ( comitative: with leaves )

* kass ( nominative: cat ) → kassi ( partitive: cat ) → kasside ( genitive: of cats ) → kassidega ( comitative: with cats )

The Finnish literary comitative expresses only possessions or attributes, and as such does not replace the preposition " with ".

There are a large number of cases: absolutive (- Ø ), ergative (- e ), genitive (-( a ) k ), dative / allative (" to, for ") (- r ( a ) for human nouns ,-e for non-human nouns ), locative (" in, at ") (- a, only with non-human nouns ), comitative (- da ), equative (" as, like ") (- gin ), directive / adverbial (" towards ") (- š ( e )), ablative (" from ") (- ta, only with non-human nouns ).

indirect object ), /-( e ) š ( e )/ ( traditionally called terminative case, but means " towards "), /- da / ( comitative = " together with "), /- a / ( locative = " in, at "), /- ta / ( ablative

The name Pitjantjatjara derives from the word pitjantja, a form of the verb ' go ' which, combined with the comitative suffix-tjara means something like ' pitjantja-having ' ( i. e. the variety that uses the word pitjantja for ' go ').

English also exhibits grammatical behavior which may be described as instances of the comitative case.

Some cases and moods are rarely constructive in spoken Finnish, e. g. the instructive and comitative cases and the potential mood.

Akkala Sami has 8 cases, singular and plural: nominative, genitive-accusative, partitive, dative-illative, locative, essive, comitative and abessive.

The other persons do not have distinct comitative case forms and simply take the prepositional case preceded by " con " ( e. g., con nosotros, con vosotras, con ella, con ellos ...).

The comitative marker in the singular is-jn and-j in the plural, which means that it looks like the genitive plural.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

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Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.

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) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

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This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.

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