Superlative case

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Grammatical cases
List of grammatical cases
Abessive case
Ablative case
Absolutive case
Accusative case
Adessive case
Adverbial case
Allative case
Antessive case
Aversive case
Benefactive case
Caritive case
Causal case
Causal-final case
Comitative case
Dative case
Delative case
Direct case
Distantitive case
Distributive case
Distributive-temporal case
Dubitive case
Elative case
Essive case
Essive-formal case
Essive-modal case
Equative case
Evitative case
Excessive case
Final case
Formal case
Genitive case
Illative case
Inessive case
Instructive case
Instrumental case
Lative case
Locative case
Medial case
Modal case
Multiplicative case
Nominative case
Oblique case
Objective case
Partitive case
Perlative case
Postessive case
Possessive case
Postpositional case
Prepositional case
Privative case
Prolative case
Prosecutive case
Proximative case
Separative case
Sociative case
Subessive case
Sublative case
Superessive case
Superlative case
Temporal case
Terminative case
Translative case
Vialis case
Vocative case
Morphosyntactic alignment
Absolutive case
Accusative case
Ergative case
Instrumental case
Instrumental-comitative case
Intransitive case
Nominative case
Pegative case
Declension
Czech declension
English declension
German declension
Latin declension
Slovak declension
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In grammar, nouns in the superlative case typically denote objects over which or onto the top of which another object moves (movement over or onto the top of is important here).

In English, similar meanings are expressed by nouns following the prepositions on top of and over preceded by a verb of motion:

I threw the ball on top of the house.