The case may be an inflectional ending or a
post-positional suffix which is added to the noun to express the relation of
the noun with other words in the sentence. In Bhumij, eight cases may be
established. Dative and Instrumental cases have single suffix to express
dative and instrumental case relations. The nominatie case does not have a
separate marker. All the case markers in this language are suffixed to the
noun. The Accusative case marker-ke is not added to the object noun if it is
inanimate; the marker is optionally added if the object noun is animate. The
other case markers are added obligatorily.
The Nominative case may be considered as a case
relation in this language though there is no separate case marker to express
this case relation. When the noun is used as the subject of a sentence (see
Chapter 5.6), it expresses the relation of the subject with other words in
the sentence.
Though single case marker is used for Dative
and Instrumental, it may be considered as two cases since it expresses two
case relations in two different contexts.
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