Armenian:Cases

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Հայերեն / Hayeren
Armenian
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Indo-European Armenian Official language in:
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Armenian alphabet

Introduction

Western Armenian has 6 cases.

Eastern Armenian has 7 cases, one more than Western Armenian. The cases are NOMNominative, ACCAccusative, GENGenitive, DATDative, ABLAblative, INSInstrumental and LOCLocative. In reality there is only 5 distinct cases as the Nominative and Accusative are idential (with a few exceptions) and the Genitive and Dative too are identical.

Eastern Armenian cases

The suffixes used are as follows:

Nominative/Accusative Genitive/Dative Instrumental Ablative Locative
կամուրջ
kanurdž
bridge
կամուրջի
kanurdži
of a/the bridge / to a/the bridge
կամուրջով
kanurdžov
with a/the bridge
կամուրջից
kanurdžich
from a/the bridge
կամուրջում
kanurdžum
at a/the bridge


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