Difference between revisions of "Locative"
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# With animate pronouns and nouns, general meaning is 'at/on someone's ...' | # With animate pronouns and nouns, general meaning is 'at/on someone's ...' | ||
# Some dialects extend #3 to be like Russian genitive 'by .../have'. | # Some dialects extend #3 to be like Russian genitive 'by .../have'. | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsLocativeCase.htm What is Locative case?]] | ||
[[Category:Case]] | [[Category:Case]] | ||
Revision as of 05:06, 12 January 2006
The Locative suffix is /-DA/
Use case
- Expresses physical location in, on, or at, etc. in the present tense only
- Expresses temporal location in past tense
- With animate pronouns and nouns, general meaning is 'at/on someone's ...'
- Some dialects extend #3 to be like Russian genitive 'by .../have'.
