Case
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Dibaye has 10 cases, Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Equative, Comitative, Privative, Essive, Ablative, Adessive, and Allative.
The Nominative case is reserved for nouns in the subject.
The Accusative case is reserved or nouns in the object.
The Genitive case is used the same as English 's. It indicates possession and relation.
The Equative case is used to indicate similarity and likeness, as in "similar to [something]" and "like [something]".
The Comitative case is used to indicate accompaniment, as in "(accompanied) with [something]?".
The Privative case is used to indicate the lacking of something, as in "lacking [something]" or "without [something]".
The Essive case is used to show dates and times, like "on July 4th" or "at 7:00 PM".
The Ablative case is used to show movement (away) from something.
The Adessive case is used to show movement at or in something.
The Allative case in used to show movement towards or into something.