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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
====Cases==== | ====Cases==== | ||
Nouns in Makari are inflected using 7 cases | Nouns in Makari are inflected using 7 cases : | ||
=====Nominative===== | =====Nominative===== | ||
The nominative case in Makari is used to mark the subject of a sentence, or to mark both the subject and the predicate in copular sentences | The nominative case in Makari is used to mark the subject of a sentence, or to mark both the subject and the predicate in copular sentences. | ||
=====Genitive===== | =====Genitive===== | ||
The genitive case is used for possession, and is used as the agent of verbs of experience | The genitive case is used for alienable possession, and is used as the agent of verbs of experience. | ||
For example: «Ćirát anícaúra» means "I am cold", and here, «ćirát» is the genitive form of «će» | For example: «Ćirát anícaúra» means "I am cold", and here, «ćirát» is the genitive form of «će» | ||
=====Dative===== | |||
The dative case is used to mark the indirect object of a sentence, the direct object of verbs of possession, is used with «já» to indicate inalienable possession and helps to convey the role of the [[w:Lative case|lative case]]. | |||
=====Accusative===== | |||
The accusative case is used to indicate the direct object of a verb. It derived from the merging between the Accusative and the Partitive | |||
====Paradigms==== | ====Paradigms==== | ||