NuclearWarhead wrote:The Germanic languages are a part of the Indo-European languages.
Jacobus wrote:Ioqu, do you think that the reason that the Nominative and Vocative in your case are written next to each other is because their forms are generally the same? Or did you learn them that way because that was how you wanted to learn them?
Jack
Bert wrote:Some Greek grammars list them nom, acc, gen, dat
Auberon wrote:I don't trust people who use PC's instead of Macs, people who hate cats, people who watch the show Friends, and of course people who prefer any declension order other than N-G-D-Acc-Abl-Voc.
Auberon wrote:I don't trust people who use PC's instead of Macs, people who hate cats, people who watch the show Friends, and of course people who prefer any declension order other than N-G-D-Acc-Abl-Voc.
I agree.... Hey wait a minute! Something not right here.Lex wrote:There are two kinds of people I can't stand. Those who are intolerant of other peoples' cultures, and the Dutch.
Bert wrote:I agree.... Hey wait a minute! Something not right here.Lex wrote:There are two kinds of people I can't stand. Those who are intolerant of other peoples' cultures, and the Dutch.
ingrid70 wrote:Bert wrote:I agree.... Hey wait a minute! Something not right here.Lex wrote:There are two kinds of people I can't stand. Those who are intolerant of other peoples' cultures, and the Dutch.
You could see it as a compliment: apparently, the Dutch are tolerant of other peoples' cultures. I wish it were true...
hznfrst wrote:Textbooks everywhere have been using the nom/acc/gen/dat order in German for some time, because it's *easier*. The same goes for Russian texts, which use nom/acc/gen/prepositional(=locative)/dative/instrumental(=ablative, sort of).
NuclearWarhead wrote:As for the Sanskrit, the Hindu grammarians order the cases like this prathamā (nom), dvitīyā (acc), tṛtīyā (inst), caturhī (dat), pañcamī (abl), ṣaṣṭhī (gen), saptamī (loc). As you can see, the Sanskrit cases are called by number. Also, they don't consider the vocative a real case. That is also the order followed in Macdonell's Sanskrit Grammar.
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