title: Elative case
text: # Elative case
  
  In grammar, the elative case (abbreviated ELA; from Latin: efferre "to bring or carry out") is a locative grammatical case signifying that something comes from something, somewhere or someone.
  
  ## Usage
  
  ### Uralic languages
  
  In Finnish, the elative is typically formed by adding sta/stä", in Estonian by adding -st to the genitive stem, -õst in Livonian and -sto in Erzya. In Hungarian, the suffix -ból/-ből expresses the elative:
  
  Finnish: talosta - "out of the house, from the house" (Finnish talo = "house") taloista - "out of the houses, from the houses" (Finnish talot = "houses") Estonian: majast - "out of the house, from the house" (Estonian maja = "house") Erzya: kudosto - "out of the house, from the house" (Erzya kudo = "house") Hungarian: házból - "out of the house" (Hungarian ház = "house")
  
  In some dialects of Finnish it is common to drop the final vowel of the elative ending, which then becomes identical to the elative morpheme of Estonian; for example: talost. This pronunciation is common in southern Finland, appearing in the southwestern dialects and in some Tavastian dialects. Most other dialects use the standard form -sta.
  
  ### Russian
  
  In some rare cases the elative still exists in contemporary Russian, though it was used more widely in 17-18th cc. texts: и́з лесу (out of the forest), кровь и́з носу (blood from the nose), из Яросла́влю (from Yaroslavl).
  
  