“Among modern languages, cases still feature prominently in most of the Balto-Slavic languages, with most having six to eight cases, as well as German and Modern Greek, which have four. In German, cases are mostly market on articles and adjectives, and less so on nouns.” (wikipedia)
- nominative – subject of finite verb
- accusative – direct object of verb
- dative – indirect object of a verb
- ablative – indicates movement from something or causality
- genitive – possessive
- vocative – addressee
- locative – a location
- instrumental – object use in performing an action
