Sentence examples for case endings from inspiring English sources

The case endings varied for various types of stems.

Standard Dutch is characterized grammatically by the loss of case endings in the noun.

What about Russian, with its Byzantine grammatical case endings mostly sounding the same but spelt differently?

Grammatically speaking, English is an amazingly flexible language with no genders, adjective agreements or case endings and minimal verb conjugations.

Most Arabic nouns have a full tripartite set of endings that agree closely with the case endings of Akkadian.

Since syntactical relations are expressed by means of case endings (and so on), Greek word order is relatively free.

Warren Hoge (NYT BRITAINN: LIBEL CASE ENDING A lawyer for Penguin Books and the author Deborah Lipstadt, who are being sued for libel by the historian David Irving, called Mr. Irving "a right-wing extremist, a racist and a rabid anti-Semite" in his closing argument in the High Court.

By listening to Larissa talk with her émigré friends in Paris, by reviewing thousands of small matters of translation, Pevear has certainly picked up a great deal of Russian, but not its outlandishly rich vocabulary, the complicated grammar, with its maddening various verb conjugations, shades of tense, reflexivities, cases, endings, gerundial gymnastics.

Mr McWhorter's academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of "whom", for example, to be natural and no more lamentable than the loss of the case-endings of Beowulf-era English.But the cult of the authentic and the personal, "doing our own thing", has spelt the death of formal speech, writing, poetry and music.

111 When Dionysius says that the Latin and Greek words differ by only one letter he is almost certainly referring to the stem (termin-: τερμον-) or to the nominative singular (termen: τέρμων); he would naturally disregard the case-endings, since he regularly inflects Latin words as if they were Greek.

The essential method of learning Sanskrit is to make one memorize the various cases and endings (called siddharupa) and a dictionary (called Amarakosa).