A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nominal groups cons
On this sign in Russian memorializing an anniversary of the city of Balakhna, the word Balakhna (Russian: Балахна) on the right is in the nominative case, whereas the word Balakhne (Russian: Балахне) is in the dative case in Balakhne 500 Let ('Balakhna is 500 years old', literally '[There is] 500 years to Balakhna') on the front of the sign. Furthermore, let is in the genitive (plural) case.
A Finnish tank truck labelled VETTÄ, the partitive singular of vesi ("water"). The partitive marks an unbounded, uncountable quantity here — "[some] water" rather than a definite whole.
Hungarian, or Magyar, is a Ugric language of the Uralic language family spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official
Grammatical case
…their case. The number of cases differs between languages: For example, modern Standard Arabic has three, so does modern English but only for pronouns; Hungarian is among those with the most, with potentially 18 cases. Commonly encountered cases include nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. A role that…
Funeral Sermon and Prayer, 12th century
A page from the first book written completely in Hungarian, 1533
Museum of the Hungarian Language in Széphalom, Sátoraljaújhely