Translational case

The translative case is a grammatical case that indicates, in the inflection of a noun (through prepositions or declensions), the result of a transformation process. Its general meaning is "become X" or "switch to X".

A common example of this would be using the preposition "into" in English, for example in "evolve into" (to evolve into, to evolve towards), "change into" (change)", "transform into" (to transform into/to), "convert into" (convert to, for example from one currency to another), "translate into" (translate to) and the like.

To respect this case, it must be kept in constant consideration that the same preposition "en", in Spanish is used for multiple grammatical cases, as different from each other as the translative (to become), the locative (in Brussels) or the ablative (fasting, with the family/with the family, in circles...), since in Spanish it does not matter to differentiate the location or direction of an animate or inanimate object, with respect to a specific site or place or broad. However, in other languages such as English (in, on, at, into, onto...) or French (en, dans, chez, à l'...) it is essential to distinguish and specify these cases (in USA, on March 4th, at my house; in France, dans une grande ville, chez moi...).

In Finnish, this case complements the esive case, with the basic meaning of a change of state. It is also used to express the preposition "in" when it is followed by the name of a language.