Usually means: Expresses movement off or from.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (delative case)

noun:  (grammar) case used to indicate movement from an object. In English, this is usually expressed by the prepositions from or off of, as in "down off of the house." Hungarian is a language that uses the delative case, see -ról.

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