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I feel like calling them cases (while technically correct) make them more complex than they are. I had the same experience with Turkish, which also has the sam
by dmitriid 4y ago
I feel like calling them cases (while technically correct) make them more complex than they are.
I had the same experience with Turkish, which also has the same "issue" with cases. As long as you try to learn them cases, you'll give up. If you learn them as "this ending means at, this ending means in", you'll learn them in half a day.
- anticensor 4y agoTurkish case system is more complex than that actually: it has 7 morpho-syntactic (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative-directive, locative, ablative, instrumental) cases along with 11 derivational cases (commitative, associative, semblative-equative, privative, possesive, familial, diminutive, modal, temporal, benefactive, modal-final).
- CRConrad 4y agoSo... Then you've learnt cases in half a day. How could that become any harder by calling it "cases", or easier by not doing so? You're still doing and learning the same thing. Would it become easier or harder to learn by calling it "strawberry jam"? Or "greedlebeflurp"?
- int_19h 4y agoInformally cases can be thought of as groupings of adpositions that produce the same word form. So instead of remembering a bunch of 1:1 mappings from all the adpositions to endings, you first do a 1:N mapping to cases, and then 1:1 from cases to endings.