comitative case

comitative case

English

Noun

comitative case (plural comitative cases)

1. (grammar) Noun case used to denote companionship. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositional phrase in company with, together with or with, as in "with the house." Languages that use the comitative case include Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Inari Sami, Northern Sami, Skolt Sami, and Quechua. It is also found in many Australian Aboriginal languages, where it is commonly used to form names of places and languages.

Translations

case used to denote companionship

Dutch: comitatief (nl) Estonian: kaasaütlev kääne (et), komitatiiv (et) Finnish: komitatiivi (fi), seuranto (fi) French: comitatif (fr) m German: Komitativ (de) m Hungarian: társhatározó eset Icelandic: samvistarfall (is) n

Mongolian: хамтрахын тийн ялгал (hamtrahyn tijn jalgal) Norwegian: komitativ Portuguese: comitativo (pt) m, caso comitativo m Romanian: caz comitativ n, comitativ Russian: комитати́в (ru) m (komitatív) Spanish: caso comitativo m Swedish: komitativ

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases