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abessive cases

abessive cases is the plural of abessive case.

Meaning of abessive case

Noun

abessive case (plural abessive cases)

  1. A grammatical case used to express the lack or absence of something. It has the meaning of the English preposition without or the affix -less.
    • Languages that use the abessive case include Erzya, Estonian, Finnish, Mongolian, and Inari Sámi.

Questions about abessive cases

What is abessive cases the plural of?
Abessive cases is the plural of abessive case.

Words near abessive cases in the dictionary

  1. Aberzombie
  2. Aberzombies
  3. Abes
  4. abessive
  5. abessive case
  6. abessive cases
  7. abessives
  8. abet
  9. abetalipoproteinaemia
  10. abetalipoproteinaemias
  11. abetalipoproteinemia

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