Case: case
| Values: | Com | Dat | Loc | Nom | Tem |
Case is an inflectional feature for nouns, pronounsand adjectives
in Apurinã.
Apurinã has 5 inflectional cases.
Com: comitative / associative
The comitative (also called associative) case corresponds to English
“together with …” -kata.
Examples
- [apu] ytãnurukata “with his wife”
Dat: dative
The dative case expresses transfer to someone.
-munhi
Examples
- [apu] ywamunhi “to him”
Loc: locative
The locative case expesses both spatial stationary and goal with -ã.
Additionally it can be used to express instrument.
Examples
- [apu] aapukutxiã “in his house”
Nom: nominative
The base form of the noun, this is the form with no case formative. It is used for both subject and object marking.
Examples
- [apu] Ywa matxaka kaiãapuku maky. “He took a lot of nuts.”
Tem: temporal
The temporal case is used to indicate duration or point in time -saaky
Examples
- [apu] Ĩkanapyryãkasaaky “when he returned”
Case in other languages: [am] [apu] [arr] [bej] [bg] [cs] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [ga] [gn] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [ka] [kmr] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj]