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2. German nouns - Wikipedia

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   Most nouns do not take declensions in the accusative or singular dative cases. A class of masculine nouns, called "weak nouns," takes the ending -n or -en in all cases except the nominative. Dative forms with the ending -e, known in German as the Dativ-e (dem Gotte, dem Manne) are mostly restricted to formal usage, but widely limited to poetic ...

3. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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   The oblique case is used exclusively with these 8 case-marking postpositions of Hindi-Urdu forming 10 grammatical cases, which are: ergative ने (ne), dative and accusative को (ko), instrumental and ablative से (se), genitive का (kā), inessive में (mẽ), adessive पे (pe), terminative तक (tak), semblative सा (sā).

4. German grammar - Wikipedia

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   The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages.Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation of some of the verb forms, resemble those of English, German grammar differs from that of English in that it has, among other things, cases and gender in nouns and a strict verb-second word order in main clauses.

5. Nominative–accusative alignment - Wikipedia

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   In linguistic typology, nominative–accusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like subjects of transitive verbs, and are distinguished from objects of transitive verbs in basic clause constructions.

6. Accusative absolute - Wikipedia

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   συνδόξαν sundóxan seeming good- ACC τῷ tôi the- MASC. DAT. SG πατρὶ patrì father- DAT καὶ kaì and τῇ têi the- FEM. DAT. SG μητρὶ mētrì mother- DAT γαμεῖ gameî marries τὴν tḕn the- FEM. ACC. SG Κυαξάρου Kuaxárou Cyaxares-gen θυγατέρα thugatéra daughter- ACC συνδόξαν τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τῇ μητρὶ ...

7. Proto-Germanic grammar - Wikipedia

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   The locative case had merged into the dative case, and the ablative may have merged with either the genitive, dative or instrumental cases. However, sparse remnants of the earlier locative and ablative cases are visible in a few pronominal and adverbial forms, and in some instances the case forms of certain noun classes use the older locative ...

8. German articles - Wikipedia

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   The gender matches the receiver's gender (not the object's gender) for the dative case, and the owner's gender for the genitive. Dative: Ich gebe die Karten dem Mann – I give the cards to the man. Genitive: Die Entwicklung unseres Dorfes – The growth of our village. For further details as to the usage of German cases, see German grammar.

9. Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod - Wikipedia

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   The title, Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (English: the dative is the death of the genitive) is a way of saying Der Dativ ist der Tod des Genitivs or Der Dativ ist des Genitivs Tod, a reference to a linguistic phenomenon in certain dialects of German where a noun in genitive case is replaced by a possessive adjective and noun in the dative ...