Subessive case

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The subessive case (abbreviated SUBE) is a grammatical case indicating location under or below something. It occurs in Northeast Caucasian languages like Tsez and Bezhta as well as in Old Nubian.

Grammatical cases

Cases

Morphosyntactic alignment	Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative
Location, time, direction	Ablative Adessive Allative Antessive Apudessive Approximative Delative Distributive -temporal Egressive Elative Illative Inelative Inessive Intrative Lative Limitative Locative -qualitative Medial Perlative Pertingent Postdirective Postelative Postessive Prolative Subdirective Subelative Subessive Sublative Superdirective Superelative Superessive Superlative Temporal Terminative
Possession, companion, instrument	Abessive Caritive Comitative Dative Genitive Instrumental -comitative Ornative Possessed Possessive Privative Sociative
State, manner	Adverbial Comparative Equative Essive -formal -modal Exessive Formal Instructive Modal Multiplicative Orientative Revertive Semblative Translative
Cause, purpose	Aversive Benefactive Causal -final Final
Other	Postpositional/Prepositional Vocative

Declensions

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