# Nominal Case Usage Endings are morphological features. They have *Karaka* meanings, and *prepositional* meanings. This is why you see bahiḥ “outside” (indeclinable which takes Abl). The karaka usage is not itself clear either, you can find: rātrau “during the night” which is in Locative! becase the locative can be temporal Verbials - Nominals # & person Nominals - Nominals #, gender, & case ### “Has/Have” [gen] the boy has/have strength boy (gen) strength (nom) ### OBJECT OF EMOTION [loc] the father loves the horse father (nom) horse (loc NOT acc) ### “Pleases/ing” [dat] the poem pleases the men poem (nom) pleases (sg) men (dat) ### “Because of…” [in] & [ab] I break the vessel because of sorrow sorrow (in &or ab) Abl "characterized by Dat to, for, ## Loc - acts like ACC "used pregnantly" ## INS - acts like ACC "adverbial usage" (like with -vat endings) ## GEN - acts like DAT