English Explanatory Dictionary

delative case

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

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