locative case

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The locative case is a grammatical case that indicates the place where something is located or where an event occurs. It is also referred to as "the locative case" or a word that is in that case.12

In Proto-Indo-European languages, the locative case was one of eight original cases. However, in many descendant languages, including Proto-Germanic, the functions of the locative case were absorbed by prepositions combined with the dative case. Modern English has largely lost its case system, with nouns typically having only a general case and a possessive case.3

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Armenian language
Morphology and syntax
ablative, instrumental, and locative. However, many of these forms overlapped so that usually only three or four different forms existed; e.g., žam ‘time’ was both nominative and accusative, žamê was ablative, and žamu was genitive, dative, instrumental, and locative. A special form of locative was very rare. There…
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ablative, instrumental, and locative. However, many of these forms overlapped so that usually only three or four different forms existed; e.g., žam ‘time’ was both nominative and accusative, žamê was ablative, and žamu was genitive, dative, instrumental, and locative. A special form of locative was very rare. There…
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