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The possessed case of a language is a grammatical case used to indicate a relationship of possession. It differs from the possessive case in that the latter one marks the possessor, while the former one marks the possessed. ^[1]

See Possession (linguistics) for a survey of the different categories of possession distinguished in languages.

References

^ "On reconstructing grammar: comparative Cariban morphosyntax", by Spike Gildea, ISBN 0-19-510952-X, 1998, p. 104

Grammatical cases

Cases

Core	Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique

Adpositional	Ablative Antessive Dative Distributive (–temporal) Essive (–formal, –modal) Formal Genitive Instructive Instrumental (–comitative) Ornative Possessed Possessive Postpositional Prepositional Pertingent Prolative Prosecutive Proximative Sociative Temporal Vialis

Locative	Ablative Adessive Allative Apudessive Associative Comitative Delative Elative Exessive Illative Inelative Inessive Intrative Lative Locative Perlative Subessive Sublative Superessive Superlative Terminative Translative

Comparative	Comparative Equative

Evaluative	Aversive Benefactive Evitative

Other	Abessive Addirective Adelative Adverbial Caritive Causal (–final) Final Modal Multiplicative Partitive Pegative Privative Postelative Postdirective Postessive Separative Subdirective Vocative

Declensions

Czech English (Middle English) Finnish German Gothic Irish Latin Latvian Lithuanian Serbo-Croatian Slovak

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