Cases Defined

Question 1

Nominative Case

Answer 1

Subject

Question 2

Accusative Case

Answer 2

Direct object

Question 3

Ablative Case

Answer 3

Shows movement from (from the top)

Question 4

Locative Case

Answer 4

location of an object (on the table)

Question 5

Instrumental Case

Answer 5

How (I went home by train.)

Question 6

Dative Case

Answer 6

Indirect objects - to whom or for whom something is said, shown, done, given. Also shows movement towards something or some place (to the store)

Question 7

Genitive Case

Answer 7

Shows possession (the cart of the merchant)

Question 8

Vocative Case

Answer 8

Addresses person or group

Question 9

8 cases in classical order

Answer 9

NAIDAGLV Nominative, Accusative, Instrumental, Dative, Ablative, Genitive, Locative, Vocative

Question 10

NAIDAGLV

Answer 10

Nominative, Accusative, Instrumental, Dative, Ablative, Genitive, Locative, Vocative

Question 11

Etymology of Dative

Answer 11

Latin - cāsus datīvus (“case for giving”)

Question 12

Etymology of Ablative Case

Answer 12

Latin - from the Latin ablatus, the (irregular) perfect, passive participle of auferre “to carry away

Question 13

Etymology of Accusative Case

Answer 13

Latin - from accuse meaning to blame, but meaning is from Greek meaning related to an effect