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How many grammatical cases did Old Armenian nouns have?

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Old Armenian nouns had seven grammatical cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, instrumental, and locative.1

Although there were seven distinct cases, they often overlapped in form, typically resulting in only three or four unique morphological shapes for any given noun.1