Associations to the word «Locative»

LOCATIVE, adjective. (grammar) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.

LOCATIVE, noun. (grammar) The locative case.

LOCATIVE CASE, noun. (grammar) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. It corresponds roughly to the English prepositions "in", "on", "at", and "by". Languages that use the locative case include Armenian, Azeri, Belarusian, Catalan, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Dyirbal, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sanskrit, Slovak, Slovene, Swahili, Turkish and Ukrainian. Some languages use the same locative case construct to indicate when, so the English phrase "in summer" would use the locative case construct.

LOCATIVE CASES, noun. Plural of locative case

LOCATIVE, noun. The semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb.