Get to know Locative better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Locative in a sentence
Locative meaning
Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
Synonyms of Locative
Using Locative
- The main meaning on this page is: Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
- Useful related words include: locative role, semantic role, participant role.
- In the example corpus, locative often appears in combinations such as: the locative, locative cases, and locative.
Context around Locative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Locative
- In this selection, "locative" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, inessive, dative, seventh, case, cases and genitive stand out and add context to how "locative" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a given locative case modifies and a locative postposition expresses. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "locative" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with locative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
However, any noun with the locative suffix -ni takes class 16–18 agreement. (13 words)
Notice that the word in a given locative case modifies the verb, not a noun. (15 words)
Other linguists list them separately only for the purpose of separating syntactic cases from locative cases. (16 words)
In morphology the Italic languages preserve six cases in the noun and adjective (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative) with traces of a seventh (locative), but the dual of both the noun and verb has completely disappeared. (37 words)
In the later stages of Akkadian the mimation (word-final -m) - along with nunation (dual final "-n") - that occurs at the end of most case endings has disappeared, except in the locative. (32 words)
Basque In Basque there are two classes, animate and inanimate; however, the only difference is in the declension of locative cases (inessive, locative genitive, allative, terminal allative, ablative and directional ablative). (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Basque In Basque there are two classes, animate and inanimate; however, the only difference is in the declension of locative cases (inessive, locative genitive, allative, terminal allative, ablative and directional ablative).
Locative bases can follow the locative particle ki (to, towards) directly, such as runga, above, waho, outside, and placenames (ki Tamaki, to Auckland).
A locative postposition expresses an absolutely different meaning to that of an instrumental, so it is evident that both of them are not related whatsoever.
An important feature of the locative-case nouns is that they are not accompanied by a preposition (as the example illustrates).
However, any noun with the locative suffix -ni takes class 16–18 agreement.
In ancient Armenia, many noble names ended with the locative -t'si (example, Khorenatsi ) or -uni ( Bagratuni ).
In Irish nouns, the nominative and accusative have fallen together, whereas the dative–locative has remained separate in some paradigms; Irish also has a genitive and vocative case.
In morphology the Italic languages preserve six cases in the noun and adjective (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative) with traces of a seventh (locative), but the dual of both the noun and verb has completely disappeared.
In the later stages of Akkadian the mimation (word-final -m) - along with nunation (dual final "-n") - that occurs at the end of most case endings has disappeared, except in the locative.
Latin has an nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, vocative, and ablative, and a locative in certain nouns, but lacks a prepositional and instrumental case.
Locative particles refer to position in time and/or space, and include ki (towards), kei (at), i (past position), and hei (future position).
Notice that the word in a given locative case modifies the verb, not a noun.
Old English had a nominative, genitive, accusative, dative and instrumental, but not a locative, vocative, or prepositional.
Other linguists list them separately only for the purpose of separating syntactic cases from locative cases.
Other Semitic languages like Arabic and Aramaic have the prepositions bi/bə and li/lə (locative and dative, respectively).
Page 263. His example is Uni-al-θi, "in the sanctuary of Juno", where -al is a genitive ending and -θi a locative.
Prepositions appear in these languages as locative prefixes prefixed to the noun and declined according to their own noun-class.
Pronouns Unlike most other Ibero-Romance varieties, Aragonese has partitive and locative clitic pronouns derived from the Latin inde and ibi: en/ne and bi/i/ie.
The few fourth and fifth declension place names would also use the ablative form for the locative case.
The locative is dealt with separately as it is seldom used in Latin and might be considered to be on the verge of extinction in Classical Latin.
Common combinations with locative
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: