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comitative case

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Also known as COM, comitative, conjunctive case, social ablative

grammatical case denoting company

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Encyclopedic overview

In grammar, the comitative case (abbreviated com) is a grammatical case that denotes accompaniment. In English, the preposition "with", in the sense of "in company with" or "together with", plays a substantially similar role. Other uses of "with", like in the meaning of "using" or "by means of" (I cut bread with a knife), correspond to the instrumental case or related cases.

Core meaning

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “comitative case” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.