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allative case

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Also known as ALL, terminalis

grammatical case

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Encyclopedic overview

The allative case (/ˈælətɪv/ AL-ə-tiv; abbreviated all; from Latin allāt-, afferre "to bring to") is a type of locative grammatical case. The term allative is generally used for the lative case for the majority of languages that do not make finer distinctions.

Finnish

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