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== case == | == case == | ||
Nouns inflect for twelve cases, and the six “primary” cases are of PIE date: Nominative, Vocative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, and Instrumental. The other six “secondary” case suffixes are agglutinative, added to the accusative: Perlative, Comitative, Allative, Ablative, Locative, and Causative. | |||
== primary case == | |||
== secondary case == | |||
*'''Locative''' and '''perlative''' are used when an action is accomplished by way of someone’s agency. | |||
*'''Comitative''' is often used with the word ‘with’, in terms of accompaniment. | |||
*'''Allative''' is used when expressing motion towards something. | |||
*'''Ablative''' is used when expressing motion away from something. It implies a separation. | |||
*'''Causative''' is often used with the word ''mic''(with), but in terms of referencing the tool in which something is accomplished. | |||
=== Gruppenflexion === | |||
The “secondary” case suffix attached only to the last element of a noun phrase. | |||
== declension == | == declension == | ||