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allative

Meaning of "allative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF ALLATIVE

ˈælətɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALLATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Allative is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ALLATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Allative case

Allative case is a type of the locative cases used in several languages. The term allative is generally used for the lative case in the majority of languages which do not make finer distinctions.

Definition of allative in the English dictionary

The definition of allative in the dictionary is the grammatical case, or a word used in the case, that in certain languages denotes movement towards something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALLATIVE

ablative · accumulative · appellative · assimilative · calculative · coagulative · copulative · correlative · cumulative · elative · legislative · manipulative · recapitulative · regulative · relative · simulative · speculative · stimulative · superlative · violative

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALLATIVE

alla breve · alla prima · Allah · Allahabad · Allahu Akbar · Allan-a-Dale · allanite · allantoic · allantoid · allantoidal · allantoin · allantois · allargando · allay · allayer · allayment · allcomers · alledge · allee · allegation

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALLATIVE

active · administrative · alternative · collaborative · comparative · conservative · cooperative · creative · decorative · derivative · in the negative · informative · initiative · innovative · narrative · native · negative · operative · qualitative · quantitative · representative

Synonyms and antonyms of allative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «allative» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ALLATIVE

Find out the translation of allative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of allative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «allative» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

allative
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

alativa
570 millions of speakers
en

English

allative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

allative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

allative
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

allative
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

alativo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

allative
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

allatif
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Allatif
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Allativ
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

allative
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

allative
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Allative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

allative
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

allative
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सर्वकारी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

allative
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

allativa
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

allativus
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

allative
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

allative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

allative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

allative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

allative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

allative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of allative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALLATIVE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of allative
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about allative

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLATIVE»

Discover the use of allative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to allative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Relating Events in Narrative: Typological and contextual ...
Verb and locative use in the “Boy falling to water from deer” scene for each age group Age Verb N Number of V + Locative constructions 4—5 fit” 6 I + directional 2 + allative in 2"' sentence throw 2 + allative I + locative in 2mi sentence as fall 2 ...
Sven Str"mqvist, Ludo Th Verhoeven, 2004
2
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Examples of a development from allative to dative functions can also be found in European languages. Thus, Latin ad 'to' has given rise to markers whose functions include that of a dative in some Romance languages; compare also English ...
Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva, 2002
3
A Grammar of Wardaman: A Language of the Northern Territory ...
In 11.4.3., the marking with Allative case of derived purpose, intention and goal complements of motion verbs was discussed. As noted, particle complements of goal are Allative-marked. There is, however, a syntactically distinct complement ...
Francesca Merlan, 1994
4
The Papuan Languages of New Guinea
allative(AU.), the relation of the place or entity toward which an action proceeds, as in / walked to the house. Semantically, the allative (ALL), and the sometimes core, sometimes peripheral, dative relation of recipient (REC) are related as the ...
‎1986
5
Morphologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Flexion und ...
The case-like notions are represented by the rows (motion to – allative and illative; location at – adessive and inessive; motion from – ablative and elative), and they cross-cut a second distinction, represented by the columns, involving ...
G. E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, 2004
6
Case-marking in Contact: The Development and Function of ...
The Development and Function of Case Morphology in Gurindji Kriol Felicity Meakins. Gurindji Kriol Gurindji Kriol Goals (inanimate) Allative marker -ngkurra etc Preposition la/nga Allative marker *preposition Ø-marked Goals (place name)  ...
Felicity Meakins, 2011
7
The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of ...
... allative PT: Kiriwina o (PREP w N LOC) locative 'in, into' PT: Muyuw u, wa ( PREP) locative, allative MM: Bulu o (PREP w PLC) locative MM: Nakanai o- (VF formative) locative MM: Meramera u- (R-) allative MM: Lamasong u- (R-) allative MM: ...
Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley, Meredith Osmond, 2007
8
Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
this kind of the allative is as clearly an agent as, for example, a nominative subject in a highly transitive finite clause, but to simply notice the agentive features in the meaning of some initial allative elements in a particular verbless construction.
Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi, Jussi Ylikoski, 2011
9
Principles of the Relation Between Local Adverb, Verb and ...
Starke gave a convincing description of the function of the "dimensionale Kasus" in Old Hittite (i.e. allative. locative, ablative, instrumental and dative) and reached the important conclusion that with animate nouns the dative fulfills the function ...
Françoise Adriana Tjerkstra, 1999
10
The History of Basque
Once the article existed, there was a potential ambiguity between, for example, the new absolutive singular mendia, with the article, and the traditional allative forms like *mendia, with allative *-a. Hence the introduction of r into the allative ...
R. L. Trask, 2013
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Allative [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/allative>. Jun 2026 ».
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