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===Cases=== | |||
[[File:Dialects and languages - cases bg - Copy.png|thumb|right|500px|Distribution of case systems across the island of Dogger.]] | |||
Dogrish nouns, pronouns and adjectives are declined in up to six cases: the nominative, the genitive, the dative, the accusative, the ablative and the locative. Some dialects still use a seventh case: the vocative. There are however no dialects that use all seven cases, as the only dialects where the vocactive has persisted have also merged the locative into the ablative. | |||
The number and nature of grammatical cases varies greatly between and within varieties and dialects of Dogrish: | |||
* the '''Swamp Dogrish case system''' (dark purple on map) features the vocative and has merged the locative into the ablative for a total of six cases | |||
* the '''Formal Dogrish case system''' (red on map) features the abovementioned six grammatical cases | |||
* the '''Valley Dogrish case system''' (light purple on map) has merged the locative into the ablative for a total of five cases | |||
* the '''Heathside Dogrish case system''' (yellow on map) has merged the genitive into the accusative for a total of five cases | |||
* the '''Frisian Dogrish case system''' (green on map) features the four "traditional" Germanic cases: nominative, genitive, dative and accusative | |||
* the '''Dutch Dogrish case system''' (orange on map) has merged the dative into the accusative for a total of three cases | |||
* the '''English Dogrish case system''' (blue on map) uses only the genitive, and only occasionally. | |||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
===Pronouns=== | ===Pronouns=== | ||
===Numerals=== | ===Numerals=== | ||