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Vinony's link graph records 143 inbound references to illative case, and connects out to abessive case, Latin and Finnish.

It is catalogued under the topic Grammatical cases.

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In grammar, the illative case (/ˈɪlətɪv/; abbreviated ill; from Latin: illatus "brought in") is a grammatical case used in the Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Hungarian, Sámi and Vepsian languages. It is one of the locative cases, and has the basic meaning of "into (the inside of)". Examples include:

Hungarian: a házba ('into the house', with a ház meaning 'the house').

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

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