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Grammatical Case II

labesHave a Good Day Instrumental-Comitative Case (-lla, -llä) A word in instrumental-comitative case takes -lla or -llä suffix according to vowel harmony, and it is the combination of instrumental case and comitative case. The former expresses the means or instrument with which something is done, while the latter denotes accompaniment. For both of the cases, English … Continue reading Grammatical Case II →

Grammatical Case I

ollesHi Grammatical case is 'any of the forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the phrase, clause, or sentence.' Jembesa has 15 grammatical cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, vocative, instrumental-comitative, abessive, concerning, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, essive, and agentive. In this chapter, … Continue reading Grammatical Case I →