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- noun grammar A
case used to indicateplace , or the place where, or wherein. It corresponds roughly to the Englishprepositions "in", "on", "at", and "by". Languages that use the locative case includeArmenian ,Azeri ,Belarusian ,Catalan ,Serbo-Croatian ,Czech ,Dyirbal ,Latvian ,Lithuanian ,Polish ,Quechua ,Russian ,Sanskrit ,Serbo-Croatian ,Slovak ,Slovene ,Swahili ,Turkish andUkrainian . Some languages use the same locative case construct to indicate when, so the english phrase "in summer" would use the locative case construct.
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