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 comitative is used to state with whom or what something was done.

Historically re is the formative that is employed also in republic, and al is the common suffix.

That ionic suffix is dropped and replaced with a new suffix ( and sometimes prefix ), according to the table below.

Meissner, and is derived from late Latin root ( which, in turn, comes from the Arabic al-qalwī – " ashes of plants ") and the suffix – " like ".

* Hysterium: ( Latin for " Hysterical ", or " Anxious ", the suffix "- um " makes the name neuter, and the character's gender is often mistaken throughout the piece ) The chief slave in the house of Senex.

In many parts of England, " borough " is pronounced as an independent word, and as when a suffix of a place-name.

As a suffix, it is sometimes spelled "- brough ".

When appearing as the suffix "- burg ( h )" in place-names, it is pronounced.

* Canadian spelling sometimes retains the British practice of doubling consonants when adding suffixes to words even when the final syllable ( before the suffix ) is not stressed.

It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, " the ' stans " ( as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.

Its common name is derived from Tupi ka ' apiûara, a complex agglutination of kaá ( leaf ) + píi ( slender ) + ú ( eat ) + ara ( a suffix for agent nouns ), meaning " one who eats slender leafs ", or " grass-eater ".

Modern methods include the use of lossless data compression for incremental parsing, prediction suffix tree and string searching by factor oracle algorithm ( basically a factor oracle is a finite state automaton constructed in linear time and space in an incremental fashion ).

The suffix "- by " for ' town ' is common in place names in Yorkshire and the East Midlands that is, Selby, Whitby, Derby and Grimsby.

As an alternative to the nomenclature standard in Rule 1, a hierarchical relationship can be expressed by concatenating the names of the higher order system and placing them in parentheses, after which the suffix for a lower order system is added.

An example is the past tense suffix -⟨ ed ⟩, which may be pronounced variously as,, or ( for example, dip, dipped, boom, boomed, loot, looted ).

For instance, the word photographer is derived from the word photograph by adding the derivational suffix -⟨ er ⟩.

When this suffix is added, the vowel pronunciations change largely owing to the moveable stress:

In fact, the etymology of the family is enterobacterium with the suffix to designate a family ( aceae ) — not after the genus Enterobacter ( which would be " Enterobacteraceae ")— and the type genus is Escherichia.

Change the suffix to-o, and the similar meanings of brosi and kombi diverge: broso is a brush, the name of an instrument, whereas kombo is a combing, the name of an action.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.

Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

As a means of silencing a discussion which ought to have taken place, the statement is an effective one: we sympathize with the universal confusion which gives rise to such convictions.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

A week in arrears, and without means to pay, I must go, it is the only right thing.

He assures us, early in the Poetics, that all art is `` imitation '' and that all imitation gives pleasure, but he distinguishes between art in general and poetic art on the basis of the means, manner, and the objects of the imitation.

In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

The whole purpose of Man's Hope is to portray the tragic dialectic between means and ends inherent in all organized political violence -- and even when such violence is a necessary and legitimate self-defense of liberty, justice and human dignity.

But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

In addition, the motor has the seal of approval of the Underwriters Laboratories, which means it is safe.