Elative case

Usage

Uralic languages

In Finnish, the elative is typically formed by adding , in Estonian by adding to the genitive stem, -õst in Livonian and -sto in Erzya. In Hungarian, the suffix expresses the elative:

: - "out of the house, from the house" (Finnish talo = "house") taloista - "out of the houses, from the houses" (Finnish talot = "houses") : - "out of the house, from the house" (Estonian maja = "house") :Erzya: kudosto - "out of the house, from the house" (Erzya kudo = "house") : - "out of the house" (Hungarian ház = "house")

In some dialects of Finnish it is common to drop the final vowel of the elative ending, which then becomes identical to the elative morpheme of Estonian; for example: talost. This pronunciation is common in southern Finland, appearing in the southwestern dialects and in some Tavastian dialects. Most other dialects use the standard form -sta.

Russian

In some rare cases the elative still exists in contemporary Russian, though it was used more widely in 17-18th cc. texts: и́з лесу (out of the forest), кровь и́з носу (blood from the nose), из Яросла́влю (from Yaroslavl).

References

References

1. uusikielemme. (2022-02-14). "The Elative Case (Mistä) – Finnish Grammar".
2. Ilola, Eeva. (July 1995). "Spatial prepositions in Russian and their Finnish equivalents". Russian Linguistics.