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Abessive case
In linguistics, abessive (abbreviated ABESS, from Latin abesse "to be distant"), caritive and privative (abbreviated PRIV) are names for a grammatical case expressing the lack or absence of the marked noun. In English, the corresponding function is expressed by the preposition [or by the suffix] [name abessive is derived from [[Latin language|Latin] abesse "to be away/absent," and is especially used in reference to [[Finno-Ugric languages.
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