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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 : Fungus (same inflected forms in...

for name in Old English e g how English was spoken 1000 years ago was nama In the accusative it was naman

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 possessive form. My dog is big/I see a dog ....

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 availalbe for review. For example: From...

Hi, Here are a few comments, drawn mostly from recollections of my Latin studies many years ago. My apologies if you know this stuff already. To understand cases, you need to look not only at Old English but, further back, at Latin and then Greek. Latin Cases are: Nominative, Vocative...

Hello Mara I myself want to know why it is so. My guess is that this tendency has its origin in the grammar of Old English that was spoken by English people a millennium ago. The Old English was a language very similar to the present day German. One of its features was that nouns and...

Can someone just clarify what I believe to be true: 'Who' is the nominative form, while 'Whom' is the form in all other cases (accusative, dative, genitive (though 'whose' can also be used for genitive), etc.) - is this correct?

Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a noun which is usually expressed by the article. In...

I am currently studying Russian and I am finding it very hard to learn without a good basic knowledge of english grammar (which sadly was not on my school curriculum). What I would like is an easily understandable way to learn the different cases ie: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative,...