inessive
inessive adjective: of or relating to the inessive case, a grammatical case that in some languages indicates the state of being in or inside a location.
Adjective
inessive (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the inessive case, a grammatical case that in some languages indicates the state of being in or inside a location.
- Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives.2015, Aet Lees, Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps, BRILL, →ISBN, page 272
Noun
inessive (plural inessives)
- The inessive case, or a word in that case.
Forms of inessive
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Origin of inessive
From in- (“in”) + essive.
Phrases with inessive
Words that rhyme with inessive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
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- recessive
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
Questions about inessive
- What does inessive mean?
- Inessive means of or relating to the inessive case, a grammatical case that in some languages indicates the state of being in or inside a location.
- What part of speech is inessive?
- Inessive can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near inessive in the dictionary
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