Editing Sublative case

{{Short description|Grammatical case}}
{{Refimprove|date=April 2015}}

In [[grammar]], the term '''sublative case''' ([[list of glossing abbreviations|abbreviated]] {{sc|'''subl'''}}) is used to refer to [[grammatical case]]s expressing different situations: In Hungarian and Finnish (rarely used),<ref name="PanuMäkinen--AdvCases">{{cite web|last1=Mäkinen|first1=Panu|title=Finnish Grammar - Adverbial Cases|url=http://users.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/sijat/sijatadverbien.html|website=users.jyu.fi|publisher=University of Jyväskylä|accessdate=6 March 2015}}</ref> it expresses the destination of the movement, originally to the surface of something (e.g. sit down on the ground, climb the tree), but in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. to university, for two nights), or into a language, while in Tsez and other [[Northeast Caucasian languages]] it denotes a movement towards the bottomsides or the area under an object. The sublative case is used in the [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Tsez language|Tsez]] and [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arcanum.com/hu/online-kiadvanyok/pannon-pannon-enciklopedia-1/magyar-nyelv-es-irodalom-31D6/a-mai-magyar-nyelv-rendszere-3615/ragok-es-jelek-csikvari-gabor-36D8/a-nevszok-jelei-es-ragjai-36E3|title=A névszók jelei és ragjai|website=www.arcanum.com/hu|access-date=2021-01-14}}</ref> languages.

== Hungarian ==
In [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] the suffix "-re" or "-ra" denotes the sublative. It can be used like "onto" but also in more abstract cases for flat areas (cities, airports).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hungarianreference.com/Nouns/ra-re-sublative.aspx|title=Hungarian Sublative case: -ra -re  [HungarianReference.com > Grammar > Nouns > Sublative: -ra/re]|website=www.hungarianreference.com|access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref> For example:
* ''hajó'''ra''''' (onto the boat)
* ''Budapest'''re''' megyek'' (I am going to Budapest)
* ''repülőtér'''re''''' (to the airport)

== Finnish ==
Examples in Finnish:
* ''minne'' - where to?
* ''jonne'' - where (relative pronoun)
* ''moniaalle'' - to many places
* ''kaikkialle'' - to everywhere

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Grammatical cases}}

[[Category:Grammatical cases]]


{{ling-morph-stub}}