Final case

Final case is used for marking final cause ("for a house"). Semitic languages had that case, but all of them lost it[1][2]. In Arabic, nouns in such position are marked by the accusative marking (e.g. ǧadda ṭalaban li-l-ʼaǧri he worked hard for the sake of reward).

References

Egon K. Keck, Frede Løkkegaard, Svend Søndergaard, Ellen Wulff, Living Waters: Scandinavian orientalistic studies presented to Frede Løkkegaard on his seventy, Page 160, Google book search, 1990
Karin C Ryding, A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic, Page 166, Google book search, 2005

Grammatical cases

Cases

Morphosyntactic alignment	Absolutive Accusative Direct Ergative Intransitive Nominative Oblique Partitive Pegative
Location, time, direction	Ablative Adessive Allative Antessive Apudessive Approximative Delative Distantitive Distributive –temporal Egressive Elative Illative Inelative Inessive Initiative Intrative Lative Limitative Locative –qualitative Medial Perlative Pertingent Postdirective Postelative Postessive Prolative Proximative Subdirective Subelative Subessive Sublative Superdirective Superelative Superessive Superlative Temporal Terminative
Possession, companion, instrument	Abessive Caritive Comitative Dative Genitive Instrumental –comitative Ornative Possessed Possessive Privative Sociative
State, manner	Adverbial Comparative Equative Essive –formal –modal Exessive Formal Identical Instructive Modal Multiplicative Orientative Revertive Semblative Translative
Cause, purpose	Aversive Benefactive Causal –final Evitative Final
Other	Dubitive Postpositional Prepositional Vocative

Declensions
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Final case

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References