delative cases

A form of delative case — case used to indicate movement from an object. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositions from or off of, as in "down off of the house." Hungarian is a language that uses the delative case, see -ról.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of delative case
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