Thursday, May 13, 2010

How many grammatical cases (noun declension) exist in your language?

In Croatian there`s six: nominativ, genitiv, dativ, akuzativ, vokativ, lokativ, insturmental.How many grammatical cases (noun declension) exist in your language?
That's exactly what's in latin: NOMINATIVUM, GENITIVUM, DATIVUM, ACCUSATIVUM, VOCATIVUM, ABLATIVUM (what in your country is called INSTRUMENTAL) (the LOCATIVUM case is often related to the GENITIVUM). In Italian (I am) cases have disappeared, we use prepositions instead of cases (what a shame!), so most of the countries colonized by Romans have the samed cases. Polish people and Croatians have the same, only in different translations. English has what corresponds to the Nominative and Genitive case (the genitive is when you add that 's to a noun, referring to someone's). I give Romans credit for their cases, which unfortunately disappeared in some countries. Interesting the fact that the Ghanaians don't know their language's structure comes from Latin. They have the nominative, accusative, vocative and locative , in their own way. For other cases, they use prepositions (my parents are from there, so I know). It's good to compare languages and their structure, in the end you find that the languages we speak are all related to one another, since it all comes from an original one. Interesting!How many grammatical cases (noun declension) exist in your language?
In Turkish we have;





Locative


Ablative


Dative


Genitive


Nominative


Accusative
7


nominative genitive dative acusative vokative local instrumental





babe you got seven, too





Czech
In English, just two; the basic noun and the genitive (although in English it's more usually called the possessive)

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