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Illative

Illative meaning

Of, or relating to an illation. | Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something.

Example sentences (2)

Its singular form, heard more often than the plural, appears in books, newspapers, etc. Most Lithuanian nouns can take the illative ending, indicating that from the descriptive point of view the illative still can be treated as a case in Lithuanian.

The illative case also changes form with a consonant stem, where the ending -hen is assibilated to -seen, as -hen is the genitive.