The abessive expresses the absence of anything.
Joka syyttä suuttuu,
Se lahjatta leppyy,
He who is angry without a cause is reconciled without a reward (proverb).
Joka kuritta kasvaa,
Se kunniatta kuolee,
He who grows up without education dies without honour (proverb), Olkaa huoletta, don’t trouble yourself (be without care). Elä suihki sutsunatta, Eläkäräämi rätsinättä, Elä liiku liinaisetta (Kal. xxiii. 215), go not without raiment, wander not without a shirt, stray not without a kerchief. Vanhempien tiedotta, without the knowledge of one’s parents. Muitten avutta, without the help of others.
For emphasis the particle ilman is placed before the abessive.
Ilman tau’in tappamatta,
Ottamatta oivan surman,
Without being slain by disease or taken by a natural death (Kal. xvi. 178, 9).
The use of the abessive of the third infinitive is particularly frequent, see below, p. [193].