Illative - Definition and Overview

Illative is, in the Finnish language, Estonian language and the Hungarian language, the third of the locative cases with the basic meaning of "into (the inside of)". An example from Hungarian would be "a házba" (into the house). An example from Estonian would be "korterisse" (into the apartment). An example from Finnish would be "taloon" (into the house), formed from "talo" (a house).

The other locative cases in Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are:

• Inessive case ("in")
• Elative case ("out of")
• Adessive case ("on")
• Allative case ("onto")
• Ablative case ("from off of")