Initiative case

The initiative case (abbreviated INITI) denotes the starting point of an action but shouldn't be confused with the egressive case. This case is used in the Manchu language as the suffix "-deri".

Example

booderi which means "beginning from the house".

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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gollark: You wouldn't want people to be rewarded in some way for work?

gollark: "Fordist"?

gollark: And what if everyone wants to do a job which isn't that useful?

gollark: Again, how are you going to quantify that in every job ever without there being some financial incentive for it to make a little sense?

gollark: I was asking about King's proposal. Yours is different.

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