| 4.9.5. Ablative Suffix ‘-a:h’ |
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The ablative case denotes the place from which an action starts. The case suffix -a:h occurs after the oblique suffix -t in case of singular nouns and after -n in case of plural nouns.
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| na:r-t-a:h |
‘fromk the village’ |
| na:hk-n-a:h |
‘from the villages’ |
| sku:l-t-a:h |
‘from the school’ |
| mara:k-n-a:h |
‘from the trees’ |
konda: -n-a:h |
‘from the eyes’ |
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After adverbs of place aga: ‘there’, iga: ‘here’ and baga: ‘where’, the ablative suffix occurs after the oblique suffix- . See the following examples:
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| aga:--a:h |
‘from there’ |
| iga:--a:h |
‘from here’ |
| baga:--a:h |
‘from where’ |
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4.9.5.1. The comparative degree also is being expressed through ablative constructions. Examples are:
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| ni:wo:r mark-n-a:h na:wo:r mark nehna: a:tur |
| ‘my sons are better than your sons’ |
| id pe:ka:-t-a:h pe:ka:l de´ga:l mantur |
| ‘that boy is taller than this boy’ |
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4.9.5.2. The ablative meaing ‘from’ is also expressed by the locative suffixe -e: when it is added to the adverbs of place ro time.
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na m-t-e: |
‘from the middle’ |
| munne:-t-e: |
‘from the beginning’ |
| ninne:-t-e: |
‘since yesterday’ |
| pagne:-t-e: |
‘from the next day’, etc. |
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| 4.10.0 Postpositions |
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On formal grounds postpositions are differentiated from case suffixes because they may be inflected with case suffixes and also because they occur as independent noun forms. If at all they occur with case suffixes they occur only after the genitive suffix -a: or after locative suffix -e:. Thus, case suffixes are bound forms and cannot be expanded by other case suffixes. Even on phonetic grounds they may be differentiated from the case suffixes. During normal speech the case suffixes are pronouned along with nouns without any pause or hiatus in between them and uttered as if they were the integral parts of noun stems. But the postpositions are pronounced only with a pause.
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