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{{Short description|Grammatical case}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
The '''associative case''' ([[List of glossing abbreviations|abbreviated]] '''{{sc|ass}}''') is a grammatical case which expresses associativity which is, although related, not identical to comitativity, which is expressed by using the [[comitative case]].

Associativity is a grammatical category which expresses the meaning "X and the group (of one or more members) associated with X", where X is a nominal, typically of human reference. An example:
* Hungarian {{lang|hu|János-ék}} meaning "John and associates / John and his group / John and them",{{r|"Cysouw 2003 p. 69"}}
* Japanese {{lang|ja|Tanaka-tachi}} meaning "Tanaka and associates / Tanaka and his group / Tanaka and them".{{r|"Grammatical Features 1994"}}

Associations in English can be identified by words such as "with", or "along with". This is not to be confused with the [[instrumental case]], which also can be translated into English as "with", but which expresses the notion of the means by which an action was done.{{r|"Schiffman 1979"}}

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="Cysouw 2003 p. 69">{{cite book
| last        = Cysouw
| first       = M.
| title       = The Paradigmatic Structure of Person Marking
| publisher   = OUP Oxford
| series      = Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
| year        = 2003
| isbn        = 978-0-19-925412-5
| url         = https://books.google.com/books?id=EacUDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA69
| access-date = 28 August 2018
| page        = 69
}}</ref>
<ref name="Grammatical Features 1994">{{cite web
| title       = Associativity
| website     = Grammatical Features
| date        = 11 June 1994
| url         = http://www.grammaticalfeatures.net/features/associativity.html
| access-date = 28 August 2018
}}</ref>
<ref name="Schiffman 1979">{{cite book
| last        = Schiffman
| first       = Harold F.
| title       = A Grammar of Spoken Tamil
| publisher   = The Christian Literature Society
| year        = 1979
| url         = https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/book.html
| access-date = 25 November 2021
}}</ref>
}}

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