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  2. Dative case - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes the dative has functions unrelated to giving. In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article. In Georgian and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), the dative case can also mark the subject of a sentence. [1]

  3. Accusative case - Wikipedia

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    The latter prepositions take the accusative when motion or action is specified (being done into/onto the space), but take the dative when location is specified (being done in/on that space). These prepositions are also used in conjunction with certain verbs, in which case it is the verb in question which governs whether the accusative or dative ...

  4. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    The pronoun cases in Hindi-Urdu are the nominative, ergative, accusative, dative, and two oblique cases. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The case forms which do not exist for certain pronouns are constructed using primary postpositions (or other grammatical particles ) and the oblique case (shown in parentheses in the table below).

  5. Ergative–absolutive alignment - Wikipedia

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    Ergative languages are classified into two groups: those that are morphologically ergative but syntactically behave as accusative (for instance, Basque, Pashto and Urdu) and those that, on top of being ergative morphologically, also show ergativity in syntax. No language has been recorded in which both the morphological and syntactical ergative ...

  6. Dative construction - Wikipedia

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    The dative construction is a grammatical way of constructing a sentence, using the dative case.A sentence is also said to be in dative construction if the subject and the object (direct or indirect) can switch their places for a given verb, without altering the verb's structure (subject becoming the new object, and the object becoming the new subject).

  7. Hindustani declension - Wikipedia

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    Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) [1] [2] and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative , and Genitive .

  8. Locative case - Wikipedia

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    The most common locative prepositions are на, na, 'on', and в, у, уві, ув, v, u, uvi, uv, 'in'; usage of these four different variations of "in" depends on whether the next word starts with a consonant or vowel. [5] The locative is used to indicate static spatial relationships and to talk about thoughts, discussions and nuanced ideas.

  9. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.