(Komi-Permyak)
17NCases
17NCases: The case system has 17 cases.
The case paradigm of the word oš ’bear’
| nominative | oš |
|---|---|
| genitive | oš-lön |
| ablative | oš-liś |
| dative | oš-lö |
| accusative | oš-ös |
| instrumental | oš-ön |
| comitative | oš-köt |
| abessive/caritive | oš-tög |
| preclusive | oš-śa |
| consecutive | oš-la |
| inessive | oš-yn |
| illative | oš-ö |
| elative | oš-iś |
| approximative | oš-lań |
| delative | oš-śań |
| prolative | oš-öt |
| terminative 1 | oš-öʒ́ |
| terminative 2 | oš-vi |
(based on Ponomareva 2010)
In the Komi-Permyak literary language there are 17 nominal cases (Ponomareva 2010: 263), but in some dialects there can be as many as 4 to 6 more than that (Ponomareva 2010, Bartens 2000: 76).
Author: Nikolett F. Gulyás