Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word LOCATIVE

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Definitions of LOCATIVE

1. (grammar) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
2. (grammar) The locative case.

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Examples of Using LOCATIVE in a Sentence

• For the Finnish language (a Uralic language), the allative is the fifth of the locative cases, with the basic meaning of "onto".
• In Finnish, the essive case is technically categorized as an old locative case, a case that, in some way, indicates spatial location.
• The Proto-Indo-European language had a locative case expressing "place where", an adverbial function.
• "Kongowea" can similarly be interpreted as the Swahili locative of "kongo", which denotes the essence of civilizational order in central Africa.
• Also, Uralic languages reuse the adessive case where available, locative case if not, to mark the same category, or comitative case (Estonian).
• Old Frisian had three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), two numbers (singular and plural), and four cases (Nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, although traces of an instrumental and locative case exist).
• There is a cut in the trunk in the form of a mouth, from which emerges a speech scroll, probably representing the language Nahuatl and by extension the locative suffix , meaning 'near'.
• For example, in Tsez, a series of locative cases intersect with a series of suffixes designating motion with regard to the location, producing an array of 126 locative suffixes (often – depending on the analysis – described as noun cases).
• Spatial modulations can perform functions including "indicating person or number; providing deictic, locative, or temporal information; or indicating grammatical relationships".
• In Hungarian surnames, the "y" instead of an "i" (used today), usually appears as the last letter of the names of nobles (as a locative adverb suffix: for example, 'Debreceni', meaning "from Debrecen"), because their names appeared in writing earlier than the names of people of common origin, so the nobiliary surnames retained the archaic spelling of the period when they were first written down.
• Southern Sámi nouns inflect for singular and plural and have eight cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, illative, locative, elative, comitative, and essive, but number is not distinguished in the essive.
• There are 6 cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, and instrumental) and 3 numbers (singular, dual, and plural).
• Verbs take tense-aspect-mood suffixes (TAMs), marking for causative, applicative, comitative, locative, passive, reflexive and reciprocal.
• In 1981 Barry Blake analysed the word as combining as mum (anus) and –ba, a locative suffix meaning 'at, in, on'.
• This is in concord with its origin: the Slavic prepositional case hails from the Proto-Indo-European locative case (present in Armenian, Sanskrit, and Old Latin, among others).
• In Northwest Caucasian languages, they can have nouns, directional and locative preverbs (like prepositions), like in this example from Ubykh:.
• Nuer nouns inflect for two numbers, singular and plural, and three cases, nominative, genitive and locative.
• At other times it is jo, where is here a locative of the base of the Sindhi genitive postposition jo.
• The Old English word haga ('enclosure', Middle English hay), in the oblique case form hagan (Middle English hayne), whose use could have arisen from a locative epithet such as æt hagan ('at the enclosure').
• The lative case belongs to the group of the general local cases together with the locative and separative case.

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