superessive
superessive adjective: of or relating to the superessive case.
Adjective
superessive (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the superessive case.
Noun
superessive (plural superessives)
- Synonym of superessive case.
- "TIZA 'ten' and HUSA 'twenty' have irregular superessives in forms such as "TIZA:N + "OT tizenot [tizenot] 'fifteen', HUSA:N + HAT huszonhat [husonhot] 'twenty-six';[…].1988, Daniel Mario Abondolo, Hungarian Inflectional Morphology, page 264
- […]the same three dimensions accommodate distinctions not merely between 'interior' and 'exterior' cases but also between them (and 'posterior' cases) and superessives ('superior' cases).1999, E. K. Brown, Jim Miller, Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories, page 64
- Synonyms:
- superessive case
Examples of superessive in a sentence
- This happens either on a personal pronoun in the first sentence (róla 'about/off-of him/ from him' instead of superessive rajta 'about') or in conjunction with nouns.2007, Gergely Tóth, Linguistic Interference and First-language Attrition: German and Hungarian in the San Francisco Bay Area, page 140:
- The broadest of these is a locative one, where faafi is used with a superessive significance, with or without contact: 'on (top of)', 'on the surface of', 'over', 'above'.2008, Frantisek Lichtenberk, A Grammar of Toqabaqita, page 481:
Synonyms of superessive
Forms of superessive
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Origin of superessive
From Latin superesse (“to be over and above”).
Phrases with superessive
Words that rhyme with superessive
- 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 superessive
- What does superessive mean?
- Superessive means of or relating to the superessive case.
- How do you use superessive in a sentence?
- This happens either on a personal pronoun in the first sentence (róla 'about/off-of him/ from him' instead of superessive rajta 'about') or in conjunction with nouns.
- What part of speech is superessive?
- Superessive can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near superessive in the dictionary
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