The
adverb An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc., answering ...
ial case (
abbreviated
An abbreviation (from Latin ''brevis'', meaning ''short'') is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method. It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word or phrase; for example, the word ''abbrevia ...
) is a
noun case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers ( determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nomina ...
in
Abkhaz and
Georgian with a function similar to that of the
translative and
essive cases in
Finnic languages
The Finnic (''Fennic'') or more precisely Balto-Finnic (Balto-Fennic, Baltic Finnic, Baltic Fennic) languages constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples. There are around 7 mi ...
.
It is also featured in
Udmurt.
The term is sometimes used to refer to the
ablative case of other languages.
Examples
In Georgian, the adverbial case has several functions. Its most common usage is to derive adverbs from adjectives, like in
English:
The adverbial case suffix is -''ad''.
The adverbial case can also act as the essive case:
The adverbial case also used in stating the name of a language:
With the passive future participle in ''sa''-, the adverbial case often forms purposive or infinitival-like constructions:
References
{{Grammatical cases
Grammatical cases