Relation
Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
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Ablative case | all-round indirect case | concerning the house | Albanian | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Sanskrit | Inuktitut | Latin | Lithuanian |
Aversive case | avoiding or fear | avoiding the house | Warlpiri | Yidiny |
Benefactive case | for, for the benefit of, intended for | for the house | Basque | Quechua | Telugu |
Causal case | because, because of | because of the house | Quechua | Telugu |
Causal-final case | efficient or final cause | for a house | Chuvash | Hungarian |
Comitative case | in company of something | with the house | Dumi | Ingush | Estonian | Finnish (rare) | Inari Sami | Northern Sami | Skolt Sami | Ossetic (only in Iron) |
Dative case | shows direction or recipient | for/to the house | Albanian | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Azeri | Belarusian | Croatian | Czech | Erzya | Faroese | Georgian | German | Greek | Hindi | Hungarian | Icelandic | Inuktitut | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Manchu | Ossetic | Polish | Romanian | Russian | Sanskrit | Serbian | Slovak | Slovene | Tsez | Turkish | Ukrainian |
Distributive case | distribution by piece | per house | Chuvash | Hungarian | Manchu |
Distributive-temporal case | how often something happens | daily; on Sundays | Hungarian |
Genitive case | shows relationship, possession | of the house | Akkadian | Albanian | Arabic | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Azeri | Bengali | Belarusian | Chuvash | Croatian | Czech | Danish | Dutch | English | Erzya | Estonian | Finnish | Georgian | German | Greek | Hungarian | Icelandic | Inari Sami | Irish | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Manchu | Northern Sami | Norwegian | Polish | Romanian | Russian | Sanskrit | Serbian | Skolt Sami | Slovak | Slovene | Swedish | Tsez | Turkish | Ukrainian |
Ornative case | endowment with something | equipped with a house | Dumi |
Possessed case | possession by something | the house is owned by someone | Tlingit |
Privative case | lacking something | without a house | Chuvash | Wagiman |
Semblative case | Similarity to something | that tree is like a house | Wagiman |
Sociative case | along with something, together with something | with the house | Hungarian | Ossetic |
Read more about this topic: List Of Grammatical Cases
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