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Cases in Finnish |
 | | akkusatiivi (accusative, objective, the case of an object) is often listed as a case, too, although its form coincides with the form of the nominative or the form of the genitive, except for the personal pronouns which have specific accusative forms (minut, sinut, etc.). |
 | | Among the cases, the six cases inessiivi, elatiivi, illatiivi, adessiivi, ablatiivi, allatiivi form a rather orthogonal system of locative cases, with the first three referring to inner relations (in, from, into) and the rest to corresponding outer relations. |
 | | list of municipality names and their cases has been composed for such purposes.) Moreover, the cases essiivi and partitiivi originally had locative meanings, too, and this is still preserved in some adverbs and sayings (e.g. |
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