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==Estonian== In [[Estonian language|Estonian]], it is marked by adding "-na" to the genitive stem.<ref name="Moseley">Moseley, Christopher. Colloquial Estonian: The Complete Course for Beginners. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. Print.</ref> Marking of the case in Estonian denotes the capacity in which the subject acts. The essive case is used for indicating "states of being" but not of "becoming", which is instead marked by the translative case, the elative case, or the nominative case.<ref name="Moseley"/> :Examples: {{interlinear|lang=et|indent=2 |laps → lapse → lapsena |"child" {} {"of child"} {} {"as a child", "when (I) was a child"} |}} :''{{lang|et|Ta töötab insenerina}} "He works as an engineer."<ref name="Moseley"/>
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