birdeen's call
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Well, if I were to say what the idea of the locative is I would be in a lot of trouble. I don't know if there's a general idea of the locative, at least in Polish. And I think the fact that I know no non-native speaker of Polish who has mastered Polish grammatical cases might be a clue that there isn't. It's a complete mess.I suspected as much. But I thought just nom. and acc. were sufficient for the analogy. (I imagine most native speakers of English would have little idea of what genitive, dative, instrumental and locative are - I remember having trouble understanding what a locative was when first introduced to the idea in Latin class; though English does flirt with it in spellings like 'Marseilles' and 'Lyons - where the French don't have an s [but what do they know about it? ])
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PS: Actually, I do know a Belarussian who uses Polish cases correctly. But other Slavs I know do make mistakes.
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