This is a list of
grammatical case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers ( determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nomin ...
s as they are used by various
inflectional languages that have
declension
In linguistics, declension (verb: ''to decline'') is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection. Declensions may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and ar ...
.
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
Motion to
Motion via
Time
Chart for review for the basic cases
Morphosyntactic alignment
For meanings of the terms ''agent'', ''patient'', ''experiencer'', and ''instrument'', see ''
thematic relation
In certain theories of linguistics, thematic relations, also known as semantic roles, are the various roles that a noun phrase may play with respect to the action or state described by a governing verb, commonly the sentence's main verb. For exam ...
''.
Relation
Semantics
State
References
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Grammatical cases
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers ( determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nom ...
eo:Kazo
sk:Pád (jazykoveda)