List of grammatical cases
This is a list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension.
This list will mark the case, when it is used, an example of it, and then finally what language(s) the case is used in.
Place and time
Note: Most cases used for location and motion can be used for time as well.
Location
Motion from
| Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ablative case | movement away from something | away from the house | Albanian | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Azeri | Chuvash | Erzya | Estonian | Evenki | Finnish[1] | Hungarian | Inuktitut | Japanese[5] | Latin | Manchu | Ossetic | Quechua | Tamil[7] | Sanskrit | Tibetan | Tlingit | Tsez | Turkish | Uzbek | Yukaghir |
| Adelative case | movement from somewhere near | from near the house | Lezgian |
| Delative case | movement from the surface | from (the top of) the house | Hungarian | Finnish[6] |
| Egressive case | marking the beginning of a movement or time | beginning from the house | Udmurt |
| Elative case | out of something | out of the house | Erzya | Estonian | Evenki | Finnish[4] | Hungarian |
| Initiative case | starting point of an action | beginning from the house | Manchu |
| Postelative case | movement from behind | from behind the house | Lezgian |
Motion to
| Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allative case | in Hungarian and in Finnish: movement to (the adjacency of) something in Estonian and in Finnish: movement onto something | to the house onto the house |
Erzya | Estonian | Finnish[1] | Hungarian | Inuktitut | Japanese[5] | Kashmiri | Lithuanian | Manchu | Tamil[7] | Tlingit | Tsez | Turkish | Tuvan | Uzbek |
| Illative case | movement into something | into the house | Erzya | Estonian | Finnish[4] | Hungarian | Inari Sami | Lithuanian | Northern Sami | Skolt Sami | Tamil[7] | Tsez |
| Lative case | movement to something | to/into the house | Erzya | Finnish[6] | Quechua | Tsez | Turkish | German |
| Sublative case | movement onto the surface or below something | on(to) the house / under the house | Hungarian | Tsez | Finnish[6] |
| Superlative case | movement over or onto the top of something | on(to) the house / on top of the house | Northeast Caucasian languages: Bezhta | Hinuq | Tsez |
| Terminative case | marking the end of a movement or time | as far as the house | Chuvash | Estonian | Hungarian | Japanese[5] | Manchu | Quechua |
Motion via
| Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perlative case | movement through or along | through/along the house | Evenki | Tocharian A & B | Warlpiri | Yankunytjatjara |
| Prolative case (= prosecutive case, vialis case) | movement using a surface or way | by way of/through the house | Erzya | Estonian (rare) | Finnish (rare)[6] | Tlingit | Greenlandic | Inuktitut |
Time
| Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ablative case | specifying a time when and within which | E.g.: eō tempore, "at that time"; paucīs hōrīs, "within a few hours". | Latin | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Finnish Turkish |
| Accusative case | indicating duration of time known as the accusative of duration of time | E.g.: multos annos, "for many years"; ducentos annos, "for 200 years." |
Latin | German | Esperanto | Serbian | |
| Essive case | used for specifying days and dates when something happens | E.g.: maanantaina, "on Monday"; kuudentena joulukuuta, "on the 6th of December". |
Finnish | Estonian |
| Limitative case | specifying a deadline | E.g.: 午後5時半までに (Gogo go-ji han made-ni) "by 5:30 PM" | Japanese[5] |
| Temporal case | specifying a time | E.g.: hétkor "at seven" or hét órakor "at seven o'clock"; éjfélkor "at midnight"; karácsonykor "at Christmas". | Hungarian | Finnish (rare)[6] |
Morphosyntactic alignment
For meanings of the terms agent, patient, experiencer, and instrument, see thematic relation.
| Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absolutive case (1) | patient, experiencer; subject of an intransitive verb and direct object of a transitive verb | he pushed the door and it opened | Basque | Tibetan |
| Absolutive case (2) | patient, involuntary experiencer | he pushed the door and it opened; he slipped | active-stative languages |
| Absolutive case (3) | patient; experiencer; instrument | he pushed the door with his hand and it opened | Inuktitut |
| Accusative case (1) | patient | he pushed the door and it opened | Akkadian | Albanian | Arabic | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Azeri | Bosnian | Croatian | Czech | Erzya | Esperanto | Faroese | Finnish | German | Greek | Hungarian | Icelandic | Inari Sami | Japanese[5] | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Northern Sami | Polish | Romanian | Russian | Sanskrit | Serbian | Skolt Sami | Slovak | Slovene | Ukrainian | Georgian |
| Accusative case (2) | direct object of a transitive verb; made from; about; for a time | I see her | Inuktitut | Persian | Turkish | Serbo-Croatian |
| Agentive case | agent, specifies or asks about who or what; specific agent that is subset of a general topic or subject | it was she who committed the crime; as for him, his head hurts | Japanese[5] |
| Ergative case | agent; subject of a transitive verb | he pushed the door and it opened | Basque | Chechen | Dyirbal | Georgian | Kashmiri | Samoan | Tibetan | Tlingit | Tsez |
| Ergative-genitive case | agent, possession | he pushed the door and it opened; her dog | Classic Maya | Inuktitut |
| Instructive | means, answers question how? | by means of the house | Estonian (rare) | Finnish[8] |
| Instrumental | instrument, answers question using which thing? | with the house | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Belarusian | Bosnian | Croatian | Czech | Evenki | Georgian | Japanese[5] | Kashmiri | Latvian | Lithuanian | Manchu | Polish | Russian | Sanskrit | Serbian | Slovak | Slovene | Tsez | Ukrainian | Yukaghir |
| Instrumental-comitative case | instrument, in company of something | with the house | Chuvash | Hungarian | Tlingit |
| Nominative case (1) | agent, experiencer; subject of a transitive or intransitive verb | he pushed the door and it opened | nominative–accusative languages (including marked nominative languages) |
| Nominative case (2) | agent; voluntary experiencer | he pushed the door and it opened; she paused | active languages |
| Objective case (1) | direct or indirect object of verb | I saw her; I gave her the book. | Bengali | Chuvash |
| Objective/Oblique (2) | direct or indirect object of verb or object of preposition; a catch-all case for any situation except nominative or genitive | I saw her; I gave her the book; with her. | English | Swedish | Danish | Norwegian | Bulgarian |
| Oblique case | all-round case; any situation except nominative or vocative | concerning the house | Anglo-Norman | Hindi | Old French | Old Provençal | Telugu | Tibetan |
| Intransitive case (also called passive or patient case) | the subject of an intransitive verb or the logical complement of a transitive verb | The door opened | languages of the Caucasus | Ainu |
| Pegative case | agent in a clause with a dative argument | he gave the book to him | Azoyú Tlapanec |
Relation
| Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ablative case | all-round indirect case | concerning the house | Albanian | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Sanskrit | Inuktitut | Kashmiri | Latin | Lithuanian | Finnish[1] |
| Aversive case | avoiding or fear | avoiding the house | Warlpiri | Yidiny |
| Benefactive case | for, for the benefit of, intended for | for the house | Basque | Quechua | Telugu |
| Causal case | because, because of | because of the house | Quechua | Telugu |
| Causal-final case | efficient or final cause | for a house | Chuvash | Hungarian |
| Comitative case | in company of something | with the house | Dumi | Ingush | Estonian | Finnish (rare);[8] Inari Sami | Japanese[5] | Kashmiri | Northern Sami | Skolt Sami | Ossetic (only in Iron) | Tibetan |
| Dative case | shows direction or recipient | for/to the house | Albanian | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Azeri | Belarusian | Bosnian | Croatian | Czech | Erzya | Faroese | Georgian | German | Greek | Hindi | Hungarian | Icelandic | Inuktitut | Japanese[5] | Kashmiri | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Manchu | Ossetic | Polish | Romanian | Russian | Sanskrit | Scottish Gaelic† | Serbian | Slovak | Slovene | Tsez | Turkish | Ukrainian
^† The case classically referred to as dative in Scottish Gaelic has shifted to, and is sometimes called, a prepositional case. |
| Distributive case | distribution by piece | per house | Chuvash | Hungarian | Manchu | Finnish[6] |
| Distributive-temporal case | how often something happens | daily; on Sundays | Hungarian; Finnish[6] |
| Genitive case | shows generic relationship, generally ownership, but also composition, reference, description, etc. | of the house; the house's | Akkadian | Albanian | Arabic | Armenian (Eastern) | Armenian (Western) | Azeri | Bengali | Belarusian | Bosnian | Chuvash | Croatian | Czech | Danish | Dutch | English | Erzya | Estonian | Faroese | Finnish | Georgian | German | Greek | Hungarian | Icelandic | Inari Sami | Irish | Japanese[5] | Kashmiri | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Manchu | Northern Sami | Norwegian | Persian[9] | Polish | Romanian | Russian | Sanskrit | Scottish Gaelic | Serbian | Skolt Sami | Slovak | Slovene | Swedish | Tibetan | Tsez | Turkish | Ukrainian |
| Ornative case | endowment with something | equipped with a house | Dumi; Hungarian |
| Possessed case | possession by something | the house is owned by someone | Tlingit |
| Possessive case | direct ownership of something | owned by the house | English | Turkish |
| Privative case | lacking something; without | without a house | Chuvash | Wagiman |
| Semblative/Similative case | Similarity to something; comparing | that tree is like a house | Wagiman |
| Sociative case | along with something, together with something | (together) with the house | Hungarian | Ossetic |
| Substitutive case | Substituting something, instead of | instead of him | Archi |
Semantics
| Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partitive case | used for amounts | three (of the) houses | Estonian | Finnish[10] | Inari Sami | Russian | Skolt Sami |
| Prepositional case | when certain prepositions precede the noun | in/on/about the house | Belarusian† | Czech† | Polish† | Russian | Scottish Gaelic‡ | Slovak† | Ukrainian†
^† This case is called lokál in Czech and Slovak, miejscownik in Polish, місцевий (miscevý) in Ukrainian and месны (miesny) in Belarusian; these names imply that this case also covers Locative case. |
| Vocative case | used for addressing someone, with or without a preposition | Hey, father! O father! Father! |
Albanian (rare) | Belarusian (rare) | Bulgarian | Bosnian | Croatian | Czech | Georgian | Greek | Hindi | Irish | Itelmen | Kashmiri | Ket | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Macedonian | Nivkh | Polish | Romanian | Russian (rare) | Sanskrit | Scottish Gaelic | Serbian | Slovak (rare) | Telugu | Ukrainian | Nahuatl |
State
| Case | Usage | Example | Found in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abessive case | the lack of something | without the house | Erzya | Estonian | Finnish[8] | Inari Sami | Skolt Sami | Quechua |
| Adverbial case | being as something | as a house | Georgian | Udmurt | Finnic languages | Abkhaz |
| Comparative case | similarity with something | similar to the house | Dumi | Mari | Nivkh |
| Equative case | comparison with something | like the house | Ossetic | Sumerian | Tlingit | Tsez |
| Essive case | temporary state of being | as the house | Estonian | Finnish[10] | Inari Sami | Inuktitut | Middle Egyptian | Northern Sami | Skolt Sami | Tsez |
| Essive-formal case | marking a condition as a quality (a kind of shape) | as a house | Hungarian | Manchu |
| Essive-modal case | marking a condition as a quality (a way of being) | as a house | Hungarian |
| Exessive case | marking a transition from a condition | from being a house (i.e., "it stops being a house") | Estonian (rare) | Finnish (dialectal) |
| Formal case | marking a condition as a quality | as a house | Hungarian |
| Identical case | showing that something is identical | being the house | Manchu |
| Orientative case | oriented towards something | turned towards the house | Chukchi | Manchu |
| Revertive case | backwards to something | against the house | Manchu |
| Translative case | change of a condition into another | (turning) into a house | Erzya | Estonian | Finnish[10] | Hungarian | Khanty | Manchu |
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