essive-modal - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- (grammar) The essive-modal case. In the Hungarian language this case can express the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has (essive case, e.g. "as a reward", "for example"), or the manner in which the action is carried out, or the language which somebody knows (modal case, e.g. "unexpectedly", "speak English").
the case that expresses the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or the manner in which the action is carried out