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Meaning of "inessive" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INESSIVE

From Latin inesse to be in.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INESSIVE

inessive  [ɪnˈɛsɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INESSIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inessive can act as a noun and an adjective.
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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INESSIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inessive case

Inessive case is a locative grammatical case. This case carries the basic meaning of "in": for example, "in the house" is "talo·ssa" in Finnish, "maja·s" in Estonian, "etxea·n" in Basque, "nam·e" in Lithuanian, "sāt·ā" in Latgalian and "ház·ban" in Hungarian. In Finnish the inessive case is typically formed by adding "ssa/ssä". Estonian adds "s" to the genitive stem. In Hungarian, the suffix "ban/ben" is most commonly used for inessive case, although many others, such as -on, -en, -ön and others are also used, especially with cities. In the Finnish language, the inessive case is considered the first of the six locative cases, which correspond to locational prepositions in English. The remaining five cases are: ▪ Elative case ▪ Illative case ▪ Adessive case ▪ Ablative case ▪ Allative case v t e Grammatical cases ▪ List of cases ▪ Declension ▪ Morphosyntactic alignment Cases Morphosyntactic...

Definition of inessive in the English dictionary

The definition of inessive in the dictionary is denoting a case of nouns, etc, used when indicating the location of the referent. Other definition of inessive is the inessive case.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INESSIVE


abessive
æbˈɛsɪv
adessive
əˈdɛsɪv
aggressive
əˈɡrɛsɪv
compressive
kəmˈprɛsɪv
depressive
dɪˈprɛsɪv
essive
ˈɛsɪv
excessive
ɪkˈsɛsɪv
expressive
ɪkˈsprɛsɪv
immunosuppressive
ˌɪmjʊnəʊsəˈprɛsɪv
impressive
ɪmˈprɛsɪv
inexpressive
ˌɪnɪkˈsprɛsɪv
obsessive
əbˈsɛsɪv
oppressive
əˈprɛsɪv
possessive
pəˈzɛsɪv
progressive
prəˈɡrɛsɪv
recessive
rɪˈsɛsɪv
regressive
rɪˈɡrɛsɪv
repressive
rɪˈprɛsɪv
successive
səkˈsɛsɪv
suppressive
səˈprɛsɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INESSIVE

inertially
inertly
inertness
inerudite
inescapable
inescapably
inesculent
inescutcheon
inessential
inessentiality
inestimability
inestimable
inestimableness
inestimably
inevitability
inevitable
inevitableness
inevitably
inexact
inexactitude

WORDS THAT END LIKE INESSIVE

antitussive
comprehensive
concussive
decompressive
degressive
digressive
dismissive
emissive
impassive
manic-depressive
massive
missive
passive
passive-aggressive
percussive
permissive
submissive
supermassive
transgressive
transmissive
unimpressive

Synonyms and antonyms of inessive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «inessive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INESSIVE

Find out the translation of inessive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inessive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inessive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

inessive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inesivo
570 millions of speakers

English

inessive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

inessive
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

inessive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

inessive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inessive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

inessive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inessif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inessive
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

inessive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

inessive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

inessive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inessive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

inessive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

inessive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिवार्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

inessive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inessive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inessive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

inessive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inessive
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

inessive
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

inessive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inessive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inessive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inessive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INESSIVE»

The term «inessive» is regularly used and occupies the 72.540 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INESSIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «inessive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «inessive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inessive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INESSIVE»

Discover the use of inessive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inessive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample
In this latter dialect, there is a specialisation of the adessive adposition for directive orientation, while the original inessive adposition encodes the stat- ive orientation (e.g. k-o kher 'into the house' vs. an-o kher 'in the house'). Extension of the ...
Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras, 2006
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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
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Finnish: An Essential Grammar
The subject of the temporal clause appears in the inessive construcSecond tion as follows: infinitive (E infinitive) The subject is expressed (a) by a possessive suffix alone, if the subject is identical with that of the main clause (b) by an ...
Fred Karlsson, 2013
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Saami Linguistics
Returning to Finnmark North Saami and the Eastern languages, the conditions that resulted in the phonological merger of inessive and elative were only relevant in the singular paradigm. However, the syncretism has also been extended by ...
Ida Toivonen, Diane Carlita Nelson, 2007
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The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition
162)a Baiassa, 1893; Kenyeres, 1926, 1928; S. Meggyes, 1971) and subject Zolfi Earlierc Earlier Earlier (in the following order)d Inessive nominal Adessive adverb 1;11 Allative nominal 1;8 Illative nominal Illative nominal 1;11 Inessive ...
Dan Isaac Slobin, 2014
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Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe
infinitive Inessive (= INFPROG) construction is 1) an all-round marker that can denote all the meanings relevant here. The rest can be divided into 2) devices denoting both the progressive and the imminential meaning (copula ...
Östen Dahl, 2000
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Inflectional Morphology in Optimality Theory
If the final vowel of the oblique stem is [not high], the Inessive is identical to the oblique stem (and thereby to the Ergative case)" (Haspelmath 1993: 78). The inelative is built on the inessive form by adding -ay. If the inessive ends in -a, then the ...
Zheng Xu, 2007
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On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The Expression of ...
In these three cases, we speak of oppositions between inessive/adessive for Location, illative/allative for Direction, and elative/ablative for Source. The opposition interior/exterior is fully gram- maticalized in a number of languages, among ...
Silvia Luraghi, 2003
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Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar
The underlying inessive function has survived in the Udi dative: (54) k'oz-a xib dev-urux kar-t'un-x-e house-DAT three dev-PL:ABS live-3PL:s-LV-PERF 'In the house, there lived three devs.' [Nizh, field notes] The Udi dative (basic form -a) itself ...
Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona, 2009
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Lexical Relatedness
Suppose now for the sake of argument that the plural and possessive inflections, as well as the inessive case, are inherent inflections interpreted semantically at the lexical level, and hence add a semantic predicate to the representation.
Andrew Spencer, 2013

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INESSIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inessive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Culver Spelling Champion Shares His Experience
On Thursday morning, I returned for more on-stage oral spelling, and I got my two words right - "inessive" (a grammar term) and "dicynodon" (a ... «Culver City Observer, Jun 15»
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I-N-E-S-S-I-V-E: Culver City Kid Aces Nat'l Spelling Bee Word
A seventh-grader from Culver City Middle School correctly spelled “inessive” as he began competing in the semifinals of the 88th Scripps ... «Patch.com, May 15»

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