Superessive case
Template:Short description In grammar, the superessive case (abbreviated Template:Sc) is a grammatical case indicating location on top of, or on the surface of something.<ref name="PanuMäkinen--AdvCases">Template:Cite web</ref> Its name comes from Latin Template:Lang: to be over and above. While most languages communicate this concept through the use of adpositions, there are some, such as Hungarian, which make use of cases for this grammatical structure.
An example in Hungarian: Template:Lang means "on the books", literally "the books-on".
In Finnish, superessive is a case in the adverbial<ref name="PanuMäkinen--AdvCases" /> cases category, that are productive only with a limited set of stems. The superessive is marked with the Template:Lang ending. For example:
- Template:Lang means "everywhere" (Template:Lit "everything-at")
- Template:Lang means "(at) here" (from Template:Lang - "this", Template:Lit "at this place")
- Template:Lang means "(at) somewhere else" (from Template:Lang - "other", Template:Lit "other-at")
In Lezgian, the superessive case is marked with suffixes: Template:Lang 'on the bear'.<ref> p. 74. Haspelmath, Martin. 1993. A Grammar of Lezgian. Walter de Gruyter.</ref>