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DCDuring/Cases and English prepositions
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User:DCDuring
Case
English prepositions
Comment
abessive case
without
-less
ablative case
away
,
away from
,
concerning
-
absolutive case
NA
patient (subject of intransitive verb)
accusative case
NA
direct object
adessive case
near
,
at
,
by
-
adnominal case
no WP, no OneLook
-
-
w:agentive case
-
subject of transitive verb
allative case
to
,
onto
-
w:associative case
with
-
benefactive case
for
-
caritive case
without
-
w:causal case
because of
?
-
w:causal-final case
for the purpose of
-
w:causative case
because of
-
comitative case
with
-
comparative case
like
-
w:compellative case
No WP, No OneLook
-
-
w:conformative case
No WP, No OneLook
-
-
dative case
to
(sometimes omitted after bitransitive verbs),
for
-
w:dedative case
deleted article
-
-
delative case
from
,
off
,
off of
-
w:directional case
No WP, No OneLook
-
-
w:disjunctive case
-
-
w:distributive case
per
, for, etc.
each
,
a
("a week")
-
w:distributive-temporal case
by
("by day", "at night"),
of a
-s
(adverbial genitive, "nights", "Sundays")
elative case
out of
-
equative case
-
-
ergative case
-
agent of transitive verb
essive case
as
temporary state
essive-formal case
-
-
essive-modal case
-
-
factive case
-
-
final case
-
-
formal case
-
-
genitive case
of
possession, origin
illative case
into
-
inclusive case
-
-
inessive case
in
,
inside
-
instructive case
by means of
-
instrumental case
by
-
instrumental-comitative case
-
-
interactive case
-
-
intransitive case
-
-
introessive case
-
-
lative case
-
-
limitational case
-
-
locative case
in
,
on
,
at
,
by
-
modal case
-
-
multiplicative case
-
-
mutative case
-
-
nominative case
-
subject, agent
objective case
-
-
oblique case
-
-
oppositive case
-
-
partitive case
-
some
or
any
w:perlative case
through
,
across
,
along
-
possessive case
of
's
w:postpositional case
-
-
predicative case
-
-
prepositional case
-
-
privative case
without
-
prolative case
by way of
,
by
-
prosecutive case
along
-
w:purposive case
-
-
w:relative case
-
-
w:reportative case
-
-
similative case
-
-
w:situative case
-
-
sociative case
together with
-
w:stative case
-
-
w:subessive case
below
,
beneath
,
under
-
w:sublative case
like subessive, but with movement
substantive case
-
-
superessive case
on
,
atop
-
temporal case
at
point
terminative case
until
,
upto
-
translative case
becoming
-
w:validative case
-
-
vocative case
-
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