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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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5.2 The nominal case system<br />

(5) ja<br />

ja<br />

dä<br />

dä<br />

dáhka<br />

dáhka<br />

almatj<br />

almatj<br />

and then make\3sg.prs person\nom.sg<br />

‘And then one makes a fire.’<br />

dålåv<br />

dålå-v<br />

fire-acc.sg<br />

[pit100404.102]<br />

The possessed noun in a possessive copular clause (cf. §13.1.4) is also in the<br />

nominative case, as in (6).<br />

(6) muvne<br />

muvne<br />

lä<br />

lä<br />

bijjla<br />

bijjla<br />

1sg.iness be\3sg.prs car\nom.sg<br />

‘I have a car.’ (lit.: ‘at-me is car’) [pit080926.01m44s]e<br />

5.2.2 Genitive case<br />

The genitive case (gen), the only adnominal case in <strong>Pite</strong> <strong>Saami</strong>, marks the possessor<br />

modifying the head <strong>of</strong> a noun phrase (the possessed noun), as in (7).<br />

(7) gokt lä<br />

gokt lä<br />

how<br />

majna<br />

ma-jna<br />

dan<br />

d-a-n<br />

be\3sg.prs dem-dist-gen.sg<br />

ságasta?<br />

ságasta<br />

talk\2sg.prs<br />

almatja namma<br />

almatj-a namma<br />

person-gen.sg name\nom.sg<br />

rel-com.sg<br />

‘What is the name <strong>of</strong> that person who you are talking with?’<br />

[pit110521b1.040]e<br />

Furthermore, the nominal complement in a postpositional phrase occurs in the<br />

genitive case, as the noun gåde ‘hut’ in (8).<br />

(8) gåde<br />

gåde<br />

sinne suovastit<br />

sinne suovasti-t<br />

hut\gen.sg in smoke-inf<br />

‘to smoke (something) inside a hut’<br />

5.2.3 Accusative case<br />

[pit100405a.157]<br />

The accusative case (acc) marks the object <strong>of</strong> a transitive verb, as illustrated by<br />

the monotransitive clause in (9).<br />

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