Associations to the word «Delative»

Noun

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Wiktionary

DELATIVE, noun. A case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express the movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table").
DELATIVE CASE, noun. (grammar) 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.
DELATIVE CASES, noun. Plural of delative case

Wise words

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