"allative case" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: allative cases [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} allative case (plural allative cases)
  1. (grammar) A case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositions to or onto, as in "to the house," "onto the house." Languages that use the allative case include Basque, Dyirbal, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and Lithuanian. Wikipedia link: allative case Categories (topical): Grammatical cases Translations (case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something): adlatibo (Basque), алатив (alativ) (Bulgarian), 向格 (xiànggé) (Chinese Mandarin), allatief [masculine] (Dutch), alativo (Esperanto), alaleütlev (Estonian), allatiiv (Estonian), allatiivi (Finnish), ulkotulento (Finnish), allatif [masculine] (French), Allativ [masculine] (German), allativus (Hungarian), tilgangsfall [neuter] (Icelandic), allativa (Ingrian), caso allativo [masculine] (Italian), 向格 (kōkaku) (alt: こうかく) (Japanese), cāsus allātīvus [masculine] (Latin), aliatyvas [masculine] (Lithuanian), allatīv (Livonian), allativ (Norwegian), allativ (Norwegian Nynorsk), allatyw [masculine] (Polish), alativo [masculine] (Portuguese), caso alativo [masculine] (Portuguese), аллати́вный паде́ж (allatívnyj padéž) [masculine] (Russian), аллати́в (allatív) [masculine] (Russian), द्वितीया विभक्ति (dvitīyā vibhakti) [feminine] (Sanskrit), caso alativo [masculine] (Spanish), allativ [common-gender] (Swedish), ałativo (Venetian), allatiivi (Votic)

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    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "dvitīyā vibhakti",
      "sense": "case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "द्वितीया विभक्ति"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "caso alativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "allativ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something",
      "word": "ałativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "vot",
      "lang": "Votic",
      "sense": "case used to indicate movement onto, or to the adjacency of something",
      "word": "allatiivi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "allative case"
}

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