prepositional case

English

Noun

prepositional case (plural prepositional cases)

1. (grammar) noun case serving as object of a preposition. Prepositions that often govern the prepositional case include "about", "in", "on", and "near". Russian is an example of a language that uses the prepositional case.

Translations

case serving as object of a preposition

• Belarusian: ме́сны скло́н m (mjésny sklón, literally “locative case”)
• Bulgarian: предложен падеж (predložen padež)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 前置格 (zh)

• Dutch: prepositief (nl), prepositionalis (nl) m
• Finnish: prepositionaali (fi)
• French: prépositionnel (fr) m
• Georgian: წინდებულებითი ბრუნვა (c̣indebulebiti brunva)
• German: Präpositional m, Präpositionalfall m, Präpositionalkasus m
• Italian: prepositivo (it) m, preposizione (it) f
• Japanese: 前置格 (ja) (ぜんちかく, zenchikaku)
• Latin: praepositionalis m
• Malay: kes sendi nama
• Norwegian: lokativ (no)
• Portuguese: caso preposicional m
• Russian: предло́жный паде́ж (ru) m (predlóžnyj padéž)
• Spanish: caso preposicional m
• Swedish: lokativ (sv) c, prepositionalis (sv), prepositionalkasus n
• Vietnamese: giới cách

See also

• Appendix:Grammatical cases