comitative case

English

Noun

comitative case (plural comitative cases)

1. (grammar) Noun case used to denote companionship. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositional phrase in company with, together with or with, as in "with the house." Languages that use the comitative case include Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Inari Sami, Northern Sami, Skolt Sami, and Quechua. It is also found in many Australian Aboriginal languages, where it is commonly used to form names of places and languages.

Translations

case used to denote companionship

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 共格 (zh) (gònggé)

• Dutch: comitatief (nl)
• Estonian: kaasaütlev kääne (et), komitatiiv (et)
• Finnish: komitatiivi (fi), seuranto (fi)
• French: comitatif (fr) m
• German: Komitativ (de) m
• Hungarian: társhatározó eset
• Icelandic: samvistarfall (is) n
• Mongolian: хамтрахын тийн ялгал (xamtraxyn tiin jalgal), хамтрах (mn) (xamtrax)
• Norwegian: komitativ
• Portuguese: comitativo (pt) m, caso comitativo m
• Romanian: caz comitativ n, comitativ
• Russian: комитати́в (ru) m (komitatív)
• Spanish: caso comitativo m
• Swedish: komitativ c

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases