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Cases without Prepositions, Excluding Exceptions and Expressions of Time

Case* Nominative

Why and When to Use It for the subject (or predicate) of the sentence

How you Change the Endings Change nothing. This is the default form of the word, found in dictionaries

Accusative for the direct object Feminine: change -/- endings to -/- Masculine + Neuter: change nothing

Dative for the indirect object Feminine: -e Masculine + Neuter: -/-

Genitive equivalent of English possessive Feminine: -/- Masculine and Neuter: -/- Instrumental for the means by which something is done Feminine: -/- Masculine and Neuter: -/-

* Prepositional not represented on the table, because it doesn't exist without a preposition. With prepositions and it expresses location. Words in the prepositional generally end in -e.

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