• A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...
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  • This is a list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used...
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    In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated gen) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus...
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  • Possessive (redirect from Possesive case)
    grammatical case (the possessive case), although they are also sometimes considered to represent the genitive case, or are not assigned to any case,...
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  • In grammar, the superessive case (abbreviated SUPE) is a grammatical case indicating location on top of, or on the surface of something. Its name comes...
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  • for an oblique case which exclusively serves to mark the grammatical case roles using the case-marking postpositions. The oblique case has similarities...
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  • In grammar, the elative case (abbreviated ELA; from Latin: efferre "to bring or carry out") is a locative grammatical case signifying that something comes...
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  • depending on grammatical mood. The language grammatically distinguishes three numbers: singular, dual, and plural. There is no marking of grammatical gender...
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  • In grammar, the instrumental case (abbreviated INS or INSTR) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with...
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  • nominal, adjectival, or verbal suffixes of Classical Arabic to mark grammatical case. These suffixes are written in fully vocalized Arabic texts, notably...
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    formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy...
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  • grammar, the instructive case is a grammatical case used in Finnish, Estonian, and the Turkic languages. In Finnish, the instructive case is used to indicate...
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  • Suffix (redirect from Grammatical suffix)
    placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form...
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  • large number of grammatical cases, whose uses and meanings are detailed here. See also Finnish grammar. Many meanings expressed by case markings in Finnish...
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    sometimes stated that the possessives represent a grammatical case, called the genitive or possessive case; however, some linguists do not accept this view...
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  • In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated ACC) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb. In the English...
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  • In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated dat, or sometimes d when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the...
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  • In grammar, the translative case (abbreviated TRANSL) is a grammatical case that indicates a change in state of a noun, with the general sense of "becoming...
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  • In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not...
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  • locative case (/ˈlɒkətɪv/ LOK-ə-tiv; abbreviated LOC) is a grammatical case which indicates a location. In languages using it, the locative case may perform...
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    In grammar, the ergative case (abbreviated erg) is the grammatical case that identifies a nominal phrase as the agent of a transitive verb in ergative–absolutive...
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  • Particles are typically words that encode grammatical categories (such as negation, mood, tense, or case), clitics, fillers or (oral) discourse markers...
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  • In grammar, the intransitive case (abbreviated INTR), also denominated passive case or patient case, is a grammatical case used in some languages to mark...
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  • ergative case are -lu when preceded by a vowel and -ju or -tu when preceded by a consonant. Martu Wangka also contains a third grammatical case known as...
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    All caps Alternating caps Camel case Capitalization Capitalization in English Initial, or drop cap Grammatical case Punctuation Roman cursive Roman square...
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  • The allative case (/ˈælətɪv/ AL-ə-tiv; abbreviated ALL; from Latin allāt-, afferre "to bring to") is a type of locative grammatical case. The term allative...
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  • acts like a terminative case. Cessative aspect Desiderative mood List of grammatical cases Anhava, Jaakko (2015). "Criteria For Case Forms in Finnish and...
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  • In grammar, the illative case (/ˈɪlətɪv/; abbreviated ILL; from Latin: illatus "brought in") is a grammatical case used in the Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian...
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  • In grammar, the vocative case (abbreviated VOC) is a grammatical case which is used for a noun that identifies a person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed...
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  • In grammar, the term sublative case (abbreviated SUBL) is used to refer to grammatical cases expressing different situations: In Hungarian and Finnish...
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