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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ʾIʿrab (section Grammatical cases)
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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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 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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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 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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Habemus papam (section Grammatical case of papal name)
pontiff's birth first name is announced in Latin, usually in the accusative case (e.g. Carolum, Iosephum, Georgium Marium), but the new pontiff's surname...
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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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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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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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Inflection (redirect from Grammatical inflection)
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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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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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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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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In grammar, the comitative case (abbreviated COM) is a grammatical case that denotes accompaniment.: 17–23 In English, the preposition "with", in the...
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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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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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grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated NOM), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part...
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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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Declension (redirect from Case suffix)
plural), case (e.g. nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative), gender (e.g. masculine, feminine, or neuter), and a number of other grammatical categories...
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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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The partitive case (abbreviated PTV, PRTV, or more ambiguously PART) is a grammatical case which denotes "partialness", "without result", or "without specific...
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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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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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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 grammar, the ablative case (pronounced /ˈæblətɪv/ AB-lə-tiv; abbreviated abl) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars...
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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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