A Guide to Corscanian's Unholy Surplus of Cases — Pt. 1/2
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[comments] corugrammarcaseguidenounlesson Unfortunately I'll have to make a second part of this article due to the character limit, so Pt. 2 focuses on the Motion cases (to/from/via)
NOM -Nominative "- "
The subject/agent; do-er of the verb
Etä doma This house
* Corscanian allows copula dropping, and this could be interpreted as "This/It is a house" or "This house"
GEN -Genitive "-æ"
Possessive
Domæ ſſira The house's door
ACC -Accusative "-e"
The object/patient; receiver of the verb
Ia amo dome I love the house
DAT -Dative "-en"
The indirect object; recipient
Ia radino dome amigen I give the house to my friend
INS -Instrumental "-œ"
With/using; how the verb is done
Ia valaro domœ I fly using my house
COM -Comitative "-œma"
Together with
Exademhaio dome gärařœma I want to have a house with a garage
PRV -Privative "-œne"
Without
Exademhaio dome gärařœne I want to have a house without a garage
SBSV -Substitutive "-atte"
Instead of/in place of
Mhaio apërtamènte domatte I have an apartment instead of a house
PREP -Prepositional "-us"
Prepositions
Cleia de domus Keys of the house
ESS -Essive "-ava"
Temporary state of; "as a..."
Esto èſtoudiantava I'm a student
EQU -Equative "-um"
Equates two nouns
Eia piloſna fratum She is as tall as her brother
EXESS -Exessive "-ecan"
Denotes a transition away from a state
Ia ebrouſecan I am becoming not-drunk/I'm sobering up
TRANSL -Translative "-atan"
A transition into a state
Ia ebrouſatan I'm becoming drunk
ORI -Orientative "-exa"
Orientated towards; facing
Ia domexa I am facing the house
RVRT -Revertive "-ötta"
Oriented away; facing away from
Ia domötta I am facing away from the house
TEMP -Temporal "-ö"
Specifying time
Poiedo bürgere Manèntö I will eat a burger on Monday
LMT -Limitative "-aha"
Deadline
Sſaſtäquitam Manèntaha We will be driving until Monday
LOC -Locative "-ige"
At
Ia domige I'm at the house
ADE -Adessive "-inne"
Near
Ia dominne I'm near the house
INE -Inessive "-ina"
Inside
Ia domina I'm in the house
ITRT -Intrative "-illa"
Between/amidst
Menilla doma e tërica I'm between a house and the road
PERT -Pertingent "-inœ"
Touching
Ia dominœ I'm touching the house
SUBE -Subessive "-icu"
Under
Ia domicu I'm under the house
SUPE -Superessive "-ima"
Above/on top of
Ia domima I'm on top of the house
APUD -Apudessive "-iſa"
Next to
Ia domiſa I'm next to the house
ANTE -Antessive "-iva"
In front of
Ia domiva I'm in front of the house
POSTE -Postessive "-ifuva"
Behind
Ia domifuva I'm behind the house
INEL -Inelative "-icha"
From
Domicha From the house ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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