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 Derivational morphology
+===Morphosyntax===
+Although Dravenian preserved much of the Slavic case inflection there usage became through Low Saxon and German influence quite different to other Slavic languages
+Accusative
+The accusative
+The genitive
+Through Low Saxon influence the genitive lost its possessive and adpositional function, which became expressed by dative similar to German dialects and Low Saxon.
+The genitive survives as case for compounds.
+A specialised function of the genitive in Dravenian is the partitive genitive, which is used in Dravenian much more extensively than in other Slavic languages.
+Dative
+The dative
 ==Syntax==