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'''Case''' is a grammatical category that indicates the grammatical function of a word (such as the role of subject, of direct object, or of possessor) in a phrase or clause. As a syntactic rather than semantic notion, case marking is not directly represented in UNL, but only in the UNL-NL grammars. 

== Natural language ==
In the UNLarium, case must be informed only to the forms (such as English personal pronouns) still holding an inflectional case system.<br>
The values for the case attribute are the following:

{{#tree:id=nl_case|openlevels=0|root=Case (CAS)|
**abessive (ABE): lack or absence of
**ablative (ABL): movement from or cause
**accusative (ACC): direct object of a verb
**allative (ALL): motion to or toward
**absolutive (ASL): subject of intransitive verbs or object of transitive verbs in ergative-absolutive languages
**benefactive (BEN): beneficiary
**causative (CAU): cause
**comitative (CMT): accompaniment
**dative case (DAT): indirect object of a verb
**delative (DEL): motion downward from
**elative (ELA): motion out of or away from
**equative (EQU): likeness or identity
**ergative (ERG): subject of transitive verbs in ergative-absolutive languages
**essive (ESS):  temporary state
**genitive (GNT): possessor
**illative (ILL): motion into or direction toward
**inessive (INE): location within
**instrumental (INS): means of the accomplishment
**lative (LAT): motion up to
**locative (LOC): location at
**nominative (NOM): subject of a finite verb
**oblique (OBL): object of a verb or of a preposition
**prolative (PLT):  motion along or by
**prepositional (PPL): object of a preposition
**partitive (PTT): partial nature of
**superessive (SPE): location on
**translative (TLT): result of a process of change
**vocative (VOC): being addressed
}}

=== Examples ===
*English
**nominative (NOM): I ("I saw him")
**genitive (GNT): my ("my house")
**oblique (OBL): me ("He saw me")
*Latin
**nominative (NOM): nauta ("nauta ibi stat" = the sailor is standing here)
**genitive (GNT): nautae ("nomen nautae est Claudius" = the sailor's name is Claudius)
**dative (DAT): nautae ("nautae donum dedi" = I gave a present to the sailor)
**accusative (ACC): nautam ("nautam vidi" = I saw the sailor)
**ablative (ABL): nautā ("sum altior nautā" = I am taller than the sailor)