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==='''Cases'''===
==='''Cases'''===
;Agentive
:The agentive case marks the agent of a ditransitive verb and the active subject of an intransitive verb
;Patientive
:The unmarked patientive case signals the patient of a ditransitive verb and the inactive subject of an intransitive verb.
;Dative
:The dative is used to mark the indirect object of a verb, the causee of a causative construction or the benefactive in an oblique argument.
;Genitive
:The genitive case marks various types of relationships between nouns. Declensing a noun with the genitive will indicate one of the following:
:*Relation: marks a noun as directly related to another in some way
:*Possesion: marks a noun as possessing another noun
:*Composition: marks a noun as the contents or composition of another noun
:*Description: marks a noun as a characteristic of another
;Instrumental
:The instrumental case marks a helper, an uninvolved companion, an instrument, a means of or a way of carrying out the action.


==='''Types of nouns'''===
==='''Types of nouns'''===
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