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Collection of case usage:

*Nominative: subject of clause

*'''Nominative''' (NOM): subject of clause

*Accusative: direct object of transitive verbs

*'''Accusative''' (ACC): direct object of transitive verbs

**Personal passive

*Prepositional (from ACC): only with prepositions

*'''Prepositional''' (PREP; from ACC): only with prepositions

*Dative: indirect object (for/to)

*'''Dative''' (DAT): indirect object (for/to)

**Allative (movement to)

**Noun similarity (adjective in NOM)

**With verbs in permissive mood

**Verb constructions e.g. ''wappe töshee'' (to go to war)

*Genitive: possession

*'''Genitive''' (GEN): possession

**Possessive pronouns always agree with their heads but nowadays genitive noun forms rarely agree. However, the formal register reguires complete declension e.g. "woman's objects" ''dokesh henuresh'', ''dokei henurei'' and so forth.

**With many prepositions

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**Noun comparison with adjectives (comparative)

**Derivation of adjectives

*Locative: place ~~and (SOMETHING?)~~

*'''Locative''' (LOC): place

**Mostly with common expressions such as ''gehixu'' (in the house).

**Blank

*Temporal: time

*'''Temporal''' (TEMP): time

**Used adverbially to express the moment of time. Mostly occurs in proper temporal nouns although the divine gender shares forms (thus confusing).

**~~In polite language, ordinal numbers of dates also receive an ''x''-ending: ''casoste'''x''' hezalax Reetyr'' (on the 18th of Horse month)~~

**To adverbialize verb infinites

**~~Can be combined with dative to indicate (WHAT?) and with genitive for (REALLY?)~~

**See [[Aoma#Temporal expressions|expressions of time]]

===Adjectives===

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 Collection of case usage:
-*Nominative: subject of clause
+*'''Nominative''' (NOM): subject of clause
-*Accusative: direct object of transitive verbs
+*'''Accusative''' (ACC): direct object of transitive verbs
 **Personal passive
-*Prepositional (from ACC): only with prepositions
+*'''Prepositional''' (PREP; from ACC): only with prepositions
-*Dative: indirect object (for/to)
+*'''Dative''' (DAT): indirect object (for/to)
 **Allative (movement to)
 **Noun similarity (adjective in NOM)
 **With verbs in permissive mood
 **Verb constructions e.g. ''wappe töshee'' (to go to war)
-*Genitive: possession
+*'''Genitive''' (GEN): possession
 **Possessive pronouns always agree with their heads but nowadays genitive noun forms rarely agree. However, the formal register reguires complete declension e.g. "woman's objects" ''dokesh henuresh'', ''dokei henurei'' and so forth.
 **With many prepositions
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 **Noun comparison with adjectives (comparative)
 **Derivation of adjectives
-*Locative: place and (SOMETHING?)
+*'''Locative''' (LOC): place
 **Mostly with common expressions such as ''gehixu'' (in the house).
 **Blank
-*Temporal: time
+*'''Temporal''' (TEMP): time
 **Used adverbially to express the moment of time. Mostly occurs in proper temporal nouns although the divine gender shares forms (thus confusing).
-**In polite language, ordinal numbers of dates also receive an ''x''-ending: ''casoste'''x''' hezalax Reetyr'' (on the 18th of Horse month)
+**To adverbialize verb infinites
-**Can be combined with dative to indicate (WHAT?) and with genitive for (REALLY?)
+**See [[Aoma#Temporal expressions|expressions of time]]
 ===Adjectives===