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Re: cases

From:Nik <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, September 11, 2000, 23:47
"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> Calling the Romanian cases "nominative/accusative" and "genitive/dative" > is about like calling English's cases "nominative/vocative" and > "accusative/dative/ablative/instrumental/locative"
I agree, but I didn't invent the terminology! :-) That's the terminology I've seen in every description of Romanian I've read. -- "Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor