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What exactly are cases?
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Iversen
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Message 17 of 19

07 April 2010 at 9:27am | IP Logged

yes ... because I also wanted to mention verbs, and verbs don't have cases
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chucknorrisman
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14 April 2010 at 7:02pm | IP Logged

Thanks everyone.

Just one thing though, why is Finnish, another agglutinative language, considered to have noun cases? There's even a Wikipedia article dedicated to the "noun cases" in Finnish:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_noun_cases
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Message 19 of 19

14 April 2010 at 9:45pm | IP Logged

chucknorrisman wrote:

Why shouldn't it? Without being a great expert on Finnish language, it looks quite like it does have case, and quite a lot of them, at that.

And what does being an agglutinative language have to do with having case or not? (hmm, good question...)

Some don't, some do... It certainly looks to me like Finnish does.

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