Semantics
Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
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Partitive case | used for amounts | three (of the) houses | Estonian | Finnish | Inari Sami | Russian | Skolt Sami |
Prepositional case | when certain prepositions precede the noun | in/on/about the house | Belarusian | Czech | Polish | Russian | Slovak | Ukrainian (note: this case is called lokál in Czech and in Slovak, miejscownik in Polish, місцевий (miscevý) in Ukrainian and месны (miesny) in Belarusian; these names imply that this case also covers Locative case) |
Vocative case | used for addressing someone, with or without a preposition | Hey, father! O father! Father! |
Albanian (rare) | Belarusian (rare) | Bulgarian | Croatian | Czech | Georgian | Greek | Hindi | Irish | Itelmen | Ket | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Macedonian | Nivkh | Polish | Romanian | Russian (rare) | Sanskrit | Serbian | Telugu | Ukrainian | Nahuatl |
Read more about this topic: List Of Grammatical Cases