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involving translation or transfer; denoting a grammatical case of change
Finnish uses a translative case to mark a change into a new state.
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From Latin trānslātīvus ('transferable'), from trānslātus ('carried across'), past participle of trānsferre ('to carry across'), from trāns ('across') + lātus ('carried').
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