Inessive case



         


Grammatical cases
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Abessive case
Ablative case
Absolutive case
Accusative case
Adessive case
Allative case
Comitative case
Dative case
Dedative case
Elative case
Ergative case
Essive case
Genitive case
Illative case
Inessive case
Instrumental case
Locative case
Nominative case
Oblique case
Partitive case
Possessive case
Postpositional case
Prepositional case
Prolative case
Terminative case
Translative case
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Declension
Declension in English


Inessive case is a locative grammatical case. The inessive carries the basic meaning of "in": "talo" (house)-> "talossa" meaning "in the house" (Finnish), "majas" - "in the house" (Estonian), "házban" - "in the house" (Hungarian).

In Finnish typically formed by adding "ssa/ss&auml", in Estonian - "s" to the genitive stem. In Hungarian suffix "ban/ben" is most commonly used for inessive, although many others, such as -on, -re, -en, and others are also used, especially with cities.

In the Finnish language, inessive is the first of the six locative cases which as their basic meaning correspond to prepositions in English.

The other locative cases in Finnish are:






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