| Case | Usage | Example | Example language(s)
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| Abessive case | by lack of something | without the house | Finnish
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| Ablative case (1) | all-round indirect case | concerning the house | Latin, Sanskrit, Lithuanian
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| Ablative case (2) | movement away from something. | away from the house | Finnish
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| Absolutive case | subjects of intransitive verbs; object of transitive verbs | the house [v.i.]; [v.t.] the house | Basque
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| Accusative case | direct object; receives the action directly | [verb] the house | Finnish, German, Esperanto, Latin, Russian, Serbian, Lithuanian
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| Adessive case | adjacent location | near / at / by the house | Finnish, Lithuanian
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| Allative case | movement onto something. | onto the house | Finnish
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| Comitative case | in company of something. | with the house | Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian
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| Dative case | shows direction or receiver; indirect object | for/to the house | German, Latin, Russian, Serbian, Hindi, Lithuanian
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| Dedative case (Respective) | related to something. | related to the house | Quenya
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| Disjunctive case | used when the subject is repeated for emphasis or to itemize a plural subject | the house and the car, they're both here |
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| Elative case | out of something. | out of the house | Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian
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| Ergative case | like nominative, if the subject performs a transitive verb | the house [v.t.] | Basque, Samoan, Chechen, Inuktitut
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| Essive case | marking a condition | as the house | Finnish, Middle Egyptian
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| Genitive case | shows relationship, possession | of the house | Finnish, German, Latin, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Dutch, Lithuanian
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| Illative case | movement into something. | into the house | Finnish, Lithuanian
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| Inessive case | inside something. | inside the house | Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian
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| Instrumental case / Instructive case | marking the usage | by means of the house | Russian, Serbian, Finnish, Sanskrit, Lithuanian
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| Locative case | location | at / on / in the house | Serbian, Klingon, Sanskrit, Latvian
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| Nominative case | normal subject case, with or without intransitive or transitive verb | the house | nearly all non-ergative, inflecting languages
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| Oblique case | all-round case | concerning the house | Hindi
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| Partitive case | used for amounts | [three] of the houses | Finnish
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| Possessive case | direct possession of something. | owned by the house | Quenya
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| Postpositional case | when a postposition follows the noun | the house in / by / with | Hindi
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| Prepositional case | when a preposition precedes the noun | in / by / with... the house | Russian
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| Prolative case | movement using a surface or way | by way of / through the house | Estonian, Finnish
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| Respective case (Dedative) | related to something. | related to the house | Quenya
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| Terminative case | marking the end of a movement or time | until / unto the house | Estonian
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| Translative case | change of a condition into another | [to change] into the house | Finnish, Hungarian
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| Vocative case | used for addressing someone | House! | Latin, Greek, Serbian, Sanskrit, Lithuanian
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