Editing Essive-modal case

{{Short description|Grammatical case in Hungarian}}
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The '''essive-modal case''' is a case in the [[Hungarian language]] that expresses either the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has ([[essive case]], e.g. "as a reward", "for example"), or the manner in which an action is carried out, an event happens, or the language which somebody knows ([[modal case]], e.g. "sloppily", "unexpectedly", "speak ''German''"). It is sometimes called the '''essive case'''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Spencer |first1=Andrew |title=Does Hungarian have a case system? |journal=12th International Morphology Meeting |date=2006 |url=https://repository.essex.ac.uk/399/1/Comrie-Fest.pdf |access-date=28 March 2024 |location=Budapest}}</ref>

An example of this would be in the sentence "Beszélek magyar'''ul'''." (I speak Hungarian.) The sentence denotes the ability of being able to speak the Hungarian language. According to [[vowel harmony]] rules, '''ul''' becomes '''ül''' in cases such as "Beszélek német'''ül'''." (I speak German.) because the word for "German", ''német'' is composed completely of median and/or frontal vowels.

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