This is a list of

grammatical case A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers ( determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nomin ...

s as they are used by various inflectional languages that have

declension In linguistics, declension (verb: ''to decline'') is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection. Declensions may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and ...

. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an example of it, and then finally what language(s) the case is used in.

Place and time

Note: Most cases used for location and motion can be used for time as well.

Location

Motion from

Motion to

Motion via

Time

Chart for review for the basic cases

Morphosyntactic alignment

For meanings of the terms ''agent'', ''patient'', ''experiencer'', and ''instrument'', see ''

thematic relation In certain theories of linguistics, thematic relations, also known as semantic roles, are the various roles that a noun phrase may play with respect to the action or state described by a governing verb, commonly the sentence's main verb. For exam ...

''.

Relation

Semantics

State

References

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Grammatical cases A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers ( determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nom ...

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