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Case: case

Definition

Case is an inflectional feature for nouns, pronouns, adjectives and numerals in Estonian.
Estonian has 14 inflectional cases:
nominative
genitive
partitive
illative
inessive
elative
allative
adessive
ablative
translative
terminative
essive
abessive
comitative


Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 15 different values: Abe, Abl, Add, Ade, All, Com, Ela, Ess, Gen, Ill, Ine, Nom, Par, Ter, Tra.

15253 tokens (44%) have a non-empty value of Case. 7877 types (73%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case. 4914 lemmas (70%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case. The feature is used with 9 part-of-speech tags: et-pos/NOUN (7917; 23% instances), et-pos/PRON (2630; 8% instances), et-pos/ADJ (2024; 6% instances), et-pos/PROPN (1665; 5% instances), et-pos/DET (390; 1% instances), et-pos/NUM (318; 1% instances), et-pos/VERB (299; 1% instances), et-pos/AUX (9; 0% instances), et-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

NOUN

7917 et-pos/NOUN tokens (99% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (6547; 83%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm jalgNomGenParComIneIllElaAddAdeAll
Number=SingjalgjalajalagaJalasjalastjalgajalale
Number=Plurjaladjalgade, jalgejalgujalgadegajalusjalgadessejalgadeljalule

PRON

2630 et-pos/PRON tokens (100% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (2215; 84%), PronType=Prs (1746; 66%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm seeNomGenParTraComAbeIneElaAdeAllAblTer
Number=Singsee, seegiselle, sellegisedasellekssellegaselletasellessellest, sest, sellestkiselselleleselleltselleni
Number=Plurneednendeneidnendeganeisneist, nendestneil

ADJ

2024 et-pos/ADJ tokens (89% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Case co-occurred: Tense=EMPTY (1864; 92%), VerbForm=EMPTY (1832; 91%), Voice=EMPTY (1832; 91%), Degree=Pos (1713; 85%), Number=Sing (1679; 83%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm suurNomGenParTraIneElaAddAdeAll
Number=Singsuursuuresuurtsuurekssuuressuurestsuurdesuurelsuurele
Number=PlurSuuredsuurtesuurisuurtekssuurtes

PROPN

1665 et-pos/PROPN tokens (99% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (1661; 100%).

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm PetrovNomGenParElaAdeAll
PetrovPetroviPetroviPetrovistPetrovilPetrovile

DET

390 et-pos/DET tokens (97% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (303; 78%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm üksNomGenParTraIneElaAdeAllAbl
Number=Singüks, ükskiüheühtegi, üht, ühtkiüheksühesühestühelüheleühelt
Number=Plurühed

NUM

318 et-pos/NUM tokens (79% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Case co-occurred: NumType=Card (315; 99%), Number=Sing (311; 98%), NumForm=Letter (230; 72%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm üksNomGenParTraComAddAll
üksüheühte, ühtegiüheksühegaühteühele

VERB

299 et-pos/VERB tokens (6% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Case co-occurred: Mood=EMPTY (299; 100%), Tense=EMPTY (299; 100%), Person=EMPTY (299; 100%), VerbForm=Sup (299; 100%), Number=EMPTY (299; 100%), Voice=Act (299; 100%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm tegemaAbeIneIll
tegematategemastegema

Case seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 92% lemmas (174) occur only with one value of Case.

AUX

9 et-pos/AUX tokens (1% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Case co-occurred: Polarity=EMPTY (9; 100%), Number=EMPTY (9; 100%), Voice=Act (9; 100%), Person=EMPTY (9; 100%), VerbForm=Sup (9; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (9; 100%), Tense=EMPTY (9; 100%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Case:

X

1 et-pos/X tokens (14% of all X tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which X and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (1; 100%), Abbr=Yes (1; 100%).

X tokens may have the following values of Case:

Relations with Agreement in Case

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Case: NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (1155; 84%), NOUN –[det]–> DET (314; 83%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (228; 85%), PROPN –[flat]–> PROPN (142; 72%), ADJ –[nsubj:cop]–> NOUN (103; 90%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (96; 87%), PROPN –[nmod]–> NOUN (95; 68%), NOUN –[nsubj:cop]–> PRON (77; 79%), ADJ –[nsubj:cop]–> PRON (73; 88%), PROPN –[conj]–> PROPN (70; 97%).


Case in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]