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Declension information - Search.com (930 words) |
 | The patient of a (transitive) verb is in the accusative case. |
| The trigger may be identified as the agent, patient, etc. Other nouns may be inflected for case, but the inflections are overloaded; for example, in Tagalog, the subject and object of a verb are both expressed in the genitive case when they are not in the trigger case. |
| The Status of Morphological Case in the Icelandic Lexicon by EirĂkur Rögnvaldsson. |
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Benefactive case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (91 words) |
| The benefactive case is a case used where English would use "for," "for the benefit of," or "intended for." For example, "She opened the door for Tom," or "This book is for Bob." |
| An example of a language with a benefactive case is Basque, which has a benefactive case ending in -entzat. |
| Quechua is another example, and the benefactive case ending in Quechua is -paq. |
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