Sublative case

Sublative case

The sublative case can express different situations: In Hungarian, it expresses the destination of the movement, originally to the surface of something (e.g. sit down on the ground, climb the tree), but in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. to university, for two nights), while in Tsez and other Northeast Caucasian languages it denotes a movement towards the bottomsides or the area under an object.Sublative case is used for instance in Finnish, Tsez and Hungarian languages.


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