Essive case (abbreviated as ESS) is the grammatical case used to describe state of noun or pronoun. It is marked with clitic postposition “-si” for both declension classes. Its most common function in Nûrlâm is to make comparisons, while in other languages it has much broader use (like marking time-related nouns in Finnish, or to express antipassive in dead Hurrian language). So Essive case of Nûrlâm is closer to Equative, Associative, Similative (Similaris), Comparative, Identical cases of other languages, and these terms may be used to describe it. Essive case transforms nouns and pronouns from subject or object into adjectival or adverbial phrase. It may also be a part of complex predicate (predicative). Typical applications of Essive case in Nûrlâm include: