Delative case
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The delative case in the Hungarian language
can originally express the movement from the surface of something (e.g. "off the table"), but it is used in several other meanings (e.g. "about people"), some of them related to the original (e.g. "from the post office").
In addition to obvious movement off a surface (such as a table), Hungarian uses the delative case to express the origin of movement from some cities and places; when one is expressing that something comes from (or is coming from) a place, the name of the place is put into the delative case.
Generally, Hungary itself and most Hungarian cities are placed into the delative case (foreign cities and some Hungarian cities use the elative case
in this context).
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
can originally express the movement from the surface of something (e.g. "off the table"), but it is used in several other meanings (e.g. "about people"), some of them related to the original (e.g. "from the post office").
In addition to obvious movement off a surface (such as a table), Hungarian uses the delative case to express the origin of movement from some cities and places; when one is expressing that something comes from (or is coming from) a place, the name of the place is put into the delative case.
Generally, Hungary itself and most Hungarian cities are placed into the delative case (foreign cities and some Hungarian cities use the elative case
Elative case
See Elative for disambiguation.Elative is a locative case with the basic meaning "out of"....
in this context).
- I am from Budapest (Budapestről vagyok). (literally, I am "off of" Budapest)
- The train from Hungary (Magyarország) is coming (Jön a vonat Magyarországról).