allativecase (pluralallative cases)

1. (grammar) Acase used to indicate movement onto, or to theadjacency of something. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositionsto oronto, as in "to the house," "onto the house." Languages that use the allative case includeBasque,Dyirbal,Estonian,Finnish,Hungarian, andLithuanian.

• Appendix:Grammatical cases