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Abessive case

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Language cases
List of language cases
Abessive case
Ablative case
Absolutive case
Accusative case
Adessive case
Allative case
Comitative case
Dative case
Dedative case
Elative case
Ergative case
Essive case
Genitive case
Illative case
Inessive case
Instrumental case
Locative case
Nominative case
Oblique case
Partitive case
Possessive case
Postpositional case
Prepositional case
Prolative case
Terminative case
Translative case
Vocative case
Declension
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In the Finnish language, the Abessive case has the basic meaning of "without". This is a rarely used case, especially in the spoken language, but it is found in some commonly used expressions. Compare the Essive and the Inessive cases.