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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