inessive en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English essive English inessive From in- (“in”) + essive.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to the inessive case, a grammatical case that in some languages indicates the state of being in or inside a location.
Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives.
2015, Aet Lees, Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps, BRILL, →ISBN, page 272:
Coordinates
Translations (13)
cy mewnfodol (of or relating to the inessive case) · fi inessiivinen (of or relating to the inessive case) · ru инесси́вный (of or relating to the inessive case) · es inesivo (of or relating to the inessive case) · fr inessif (of or relating to the inessive case) · ga ineiseach (of or relating to the inessive case) · ja 内格 (of or relating to the inessive case) · ca inessiu (of or relating to the inessive case) · pl w inessivusie (of or relating to the inessive case) · fi inessiivi- (of or relating to the inessive case) · et inessiivne (of or relating to the inessive case) · eu inesibo (of or relating to the inessive case) · et seesütlev (of or relating to the inessive case)