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In grammar, the illative case (/ˈɪlətɪv/; abbreviated ill; from Latin: illatus "brought in") is a grammatical case used in the Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Hungarian, Sámi and Vepsian languages. It is one of the locative cases, and has the basic meaning of "into (the inside of)". Examples include:

Hungarian: a házba ('into the house', with a ház meaning 'the house').

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