Equative case

Equative case

Equative is a case with the meaning of comparison, or likening. The equative case has been used in very few languages in history.Fact|date=September 2008 It was used in the Sumerian language.

In Sumerian, the equative was formed by adding the suffix -gin7 to the end of a noun phrase::"lugal", "king"; "lugal-gin"7, "kinglike", "like a king":"nitah-kalaga"; "mighty man"; "nitah-kalaga-gin"7, "like a mighty man"

In Ossetic it is formed by the ending -ау [aw] ::"фæт", "arrow"; "фæтау", "arrowlike":"Ницы фенæгау йæхи акодта", lit. "nothingseer-like himself made" (" [he or she] pretended to see nothing").

ee also

*List of grammatical cases

External links

* [http://www.sil.org/Linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsEquativeCase.htm SIL definition of equative case]


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