GG: OMG! You take me back to my Latin and Russian classes in high school - the cases and declinations of nouns and adjectives: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative, instrumental ... and a different ending for each one in

nominative genitive dative accusative instrumental locative vocative nominative - for the subject of the sentence genitive - equivalent to "of the ...", "of a ..." or the possessive 's . dative - for the indirect

Hi, The short answer would be: such question are dangerous, try and learn them by heart! The long answer is: in Latin, they have different inflected forms because they belong to two different "classes": 2nd declension and 3rd declension

Uzytkownik "izzy" (Email Removed) napisal w wiadomosci There is a pervasive tendency for the same semantically unrelated concepts to be joined as (near) homonyms across languages. So, ... not be phonetically or etymologically related),

was spoken 1000 years ago) was "nama". In the accusative, it was "naman". So, English use to change

Irish (Gaelic) has 5 cases - nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive and dative -, You cannot be serious. In modern standard Irish there are three cases: nominative, vocative, and genitive. Dative can hardly be said to be a living form anymore,

onetitfemme schrieb: Well, yes it might be. Even though I am more of a tech monkey I am a very well read ... "someone" or "you may enter", when you mean "anyone" ... .. This is kind of what I am looking for You are

didn't anyone study latin over here?.... Nominative, Vocative, Accusative, Genitive , Dative and Ablative.

None of these names for cases applies much to Modern English; we have neither an accusative nor a dative case and many linguists might argue we do not even have a true genitive (just a "clitic s"). Nouns have an all-purpose "base case" and a

Hi, How likely might it be that the Dative case got its name from something other than dare ? Well, 'give' for Dative seems a pretty plausible theory to me, since you 'give to ' someone. Now I've googled a bit, and there's lots of info