but i will someday so imma save it for then

organizedstudy:

I love that people can’t decide if Swedish has zero, one, two or three cases, it’s so fun.

Nominative: Du gillar ost – You like cheese

Genitive: Din ost – Your cheese

Objective: Osten gillar dig – The cheese likes you

Three cases: Nominative, genitive and objective.

Pro: “osten gillar du” means you like the cheese but with a weird word order, the objective form is important to see who is the object in the sentence

Con: there are only an objective form for the personal pronouns

Two cases: Nominative and genitive

Pro: they have different forms to imply owning something, great, just add an -s on it, the objective form shouldn’t be counted as it’s so unusual

Con: some people think it’s unnecessary to call genitive a case on it’s own because it’s so simple and could be a clitic

One case: Genitive OR Nominative

Pro: the words in nominative shouldn’t be seen as having a case, leaving only the genitive OR the genitive -s is just a clitic to the nominative so everything is just one case

Con: nominative and genitive are definitely two different cases and one isn’t a part of the other

Zero cases: No case

Pro: if the -s form isn’t called a genitive, why make all the other words have a case?

Con: the -s form is a case ??