Re: all possible cases ;-)
From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
Date: | Thursday, October 18, 2001, 14:00 |
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Michael Poxon wrote:
> Dear Padraic,
> Mmm... it also depends on what you call a 'case'; Hungarian has a lot of
> what are called cases, but often these are simply prepositions like
> "towards", "into" and so on. What does our resident Magyar think?
> Mike
Well, it is that way, most of these cases are locative in nature, like my
favourite, the superessive (meaning, "on something":
asztalon (asztal "table", -n being the marker of the superessive)
on [a] table
Personally, I do consider them cases, fwiw.
---frank