inessive cases

A form of inessive case — A noun case used to indicate location inside something. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositions "in" or "inside". Languages that use the inessive case include Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Ossetian, and Erzya.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of inessive case
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