With this principle Novoslovnica establishes nine cases. Nine changing patterns that determine alterations of all words of nominal POS. This is the unification of Slavic languages in the sphrere of fusial word linking. Here they are:
Nominative (N.C.)
Genitive (G.C.)
Partitive (P.C.)
Dative (D.C.)
Accusative (A.C.)
Instrumental (I.C.)
Prepositional (Pr. C.)
Locative (L.C.})
Vocative (V.C.)
In this chapter we will speak about cases in general. All examples will disclose case features through nouns as examples.
Nominative case (Imenóvnik} is used when we are talking about a concept as an actor. If the sentence is full, the subject is in Nominative. You can ask questions like «Who? What?» to it.
This case is basic in most languages, so POSes in this case are supposed to be in the normal form (that we can find in a dictionary). In Novoslovnica nominative also determines a normal from of the word. In the examples you can see full sentenses, where subject is used in nominative.
Examples:
Dom-òt je vëlïkym. The house is big.
Izučilišto, de ja sę učam, je starym. The school I attend is old.
Klüč-òt je od ovoŭ vråtoŭ. The key is to these doors.
Genitive case (Čyǐnik) is used when we are talking to an object being related to another one. Thus this case show what generation the object is of and what is it made from or whom does it belong to. The questions that determine the case are «Whose? Which? What?».
In Novoslovnica possessive case equals to genitive one, so English «s» constructions should be translated in genitive (example 4.1.4). Further, genitive in Novoslovnica could be related to usage of nouns with «of» preposition (example 2, 3).
Examples:
Kniga brata je vëlïmi zajimliva. My brothers book is very fascinating.
Cěna uspěha je mnogo vëlïka. The price of success is very high.
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