Delative case
In grammar, the delative case is a grammatical case in the Hungarian language which originally expressed the movement from the surface of something, but has also taken on several other meanings, some of which are related to the original.
In addition to obvious movement off a surface, Hungarian uses the delative case to express the origin of movement from some cities and places; when one is expressing that something comes 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.
With the same meaning as in Hungarian, the delative is also used for some words as an adverbial case in Finnish, e.g.:
- täältä - from here
- tuolta - from over there
- sieltä - from there
- muualta - from elsewhere
- toisaalta - from elsewhere, on the other hand
- yhtäältä - from one place