The ablative case has 15 uses, descending from three Proto-Indo-European cases: ablative ( from ), instrumental ( with ), and locative ( in / at ).

In Finnish, the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the meaning " from, off, of ", e. g. pöytä – pöydältä " table – off from the table ".

It is an outer locative case, used just as the adessive and allative cases to denote both being on top of something and " being around the place " ( as opposed to the inner locative case, the elative, which means " from out of " or " from the inside of ").

* The locative case indicates a location: We live in China.

Inessive case ( abbreviated ; from Latin inesse " to be in or at ") is a locative grammatical case.

In the Finnish language, the inessive case is considered the first ( in Estonian language the second ) of the six locative cases, which correspond to locational prepositions in English.

Elative ( abbreviated ; from Latin efferre " to bring or carry out ") is a locative case with the basic meaning " out of ".

In Uralic languages, such as Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, the adessive case ( abbreviated ; from Latin adesse " to be present ") is the fourth of the locative cases with the basic meaning of " on ".

Allative case ( abbreviated ; from Latin allāt -, afferre " to bring to ") is a type of the locative cases used in several languages.

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

The locative case belongs to the general local cases together with the lative and separative case.

The locative case exists in many language groups.

The Proto-Indo-European language had a locative case expressing " place where ", an adverbial function.

Subsequently the locative case tended to merge with other cases: the genitive or dative.

The locative case is found in:

In Latin, the functions of the locative case were mostly absorbed by the ablative, but a separate locative is found in a few words.

The Latin locative case applies only to the names of cities and small islands and to a few other isolated words.

The GNIS database is the official geographic names repository database for the United States, and is designated the only source of geographic names and locative attributes for use by the agencies of the Federal Government.

In Basque there are two classes, animate and inanimate ; however, the only difference is in the declension of locative cases ( inessive, locative genitive, adlative, terminal adlative, ablative and directional ablative ).

Illative ( abbreviated ; from Latin illatus " brought in ") is, in the Finnish language, Estonian language and the Hungarian language, the third of the locative cases with the basic meaning of " into ( the inside of )".

In the Finnish language, the allative is the fifth of the locative cases, with the basic meaning of " onto ".

Some expressions use the essive in the ancient locative meaning, e. g. " at home " is kotona.

-omu is the standard locative ( prepositional ) ending, but variants in-im are common in dialect and poetry, and allowed by the standards bodies.

Additionally Akkadian is the only Semitic language to use the prepositions ina and ana ( locative, English in / on / with, and dative-locative, for / to, respectively ).

The name is locative and descriptive of crossing points over the River Derwent being derived from a combination of the words stone, ford and bridge i. e. stoneford and bridge.

For singular first and second declension, the locative is identical to the genitive singular form, and for the singular third declension the locative is identical to the ablative singular form.

Postpositions are rare ; most locative semantic functions, as well as some non-local ones, are provided with preverbal elements: you wrote it for me.

There are two further noun cases in Latin, the vocative and the locative.

A complete Latin noun declension consists of seven grammatical cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative and locative.

The city of Trier () derives its name from the later Latin locative in Trēverīs for earlier Augusta Treverorum.

This is in concord with its etymology: the Slavic prepositional case hails from the Proto-Indo-European locative case ( present in Armenian, Sanskrit, and Old Latin, among others ).

* Temp., abbreviation for Latin tempore, " in the time of ", locative case of tempus, " time ".

Absolute constructions occur with other grammatical cases in Indo-European languages, such as accusative absolute, ablative absolute in Latin, dative absolute in Gothic and Old Church Slavonic, and locative absolute in Vedic Sanskrit.

Sanskrit has eight cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, locative and instrumental.

* Nominative > accusative or ergative > genitive > dative > locative > ablative > instrumental > prepositional > others.

The grammarian Pāṇini identified six semantic roles or karaka, which are related to the seven Sanskrit cases ( nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, and locative ), but not in a one-to-one way.

* Retention of the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, locative and vocative cases, but loss of the instrumental

The language has six grammatical cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative and locative, and a complex morphology with a variety of moods.

Nominals can be declined in three grammatical genders ( masculine, feminine, neuter ), three numbers ( singular, plural, dual ) and seven cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, instrumental, dative, genitive, and locative.

Nouns and adjectives decline into seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative.

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 ).

For instance Roma ( Rome ) may appear as Romae meaning " at Rome " ( locative ), " of Rome " ( genitive ) or " for Rome " ( dative ), as Romam meaning " to Rome " ( accusative ), or indeed as Romā with a long a, probably not indicated in the orthography, meaning " in Rome " ( ablative ).

There are 6 cases ( nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, and instrumental ) and 3 numbers ( singular, dual, and plural ).

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 ).

Nouns and other declinable words are declined in seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative.

allows the verb compound to convey the meanings of subject, direct object, indirect object, genitive, locative and causative meanings.