Kazakh/Case

What's a case? What's not a case?

These all follow bare nouns (and can follow possessed forms too?), but they differ from one another in a number of ways.

Note that "yes" for "substantive?" generally means "can be followed by another 'case' suffix" (sometimes even recursively)!

form	name	verbal argument?	verbal adjunct?	attributive?	substantive?	postpositional obj?	irregular with pronouns?	irregular with possession?	C phonology	V phonology
-	nominative/absolutive	yes	~no	~yes	yes	yes	(no)	(no)	(no)	(no)
-NI	accusative	yes	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
-GA	dative	yes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
-NIң	genitive	no	no	yes	no	~yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
-DA	locative	no	yes	no	no	no?	no	yes	yes	yes
-DAн	ablative	yes	yes	no	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
-Мен	instrumental/etc.	yes	yes	no?	no	yes	yes	no	yes	no
-Nікі	substantive genitive	(with case)	(with case)	(with case)	yes	(with case)	yes	yes	no	no
-DAGI	attributive locative	(with case)	(with case)	yes	yes	(with case)	no	yes	yes	yes
-DAй	similative	(with case)	yes	yes	yes	no?	no	yes	yes	yes
-сIз	abessive	(with case)	yes	yes	yes	no?	yes	no?	(no)	yes
-LI	?					no?			yes	yes
-LIK	?					no?			yes	yes
сайын	"every"	no	yes	no	no	no	?	no	no	no
form	name	verbal argument?	verbal adjunct?	attributive?	substantive?	postpositional obj?	irregular with pronouns?	irregular with possession?	C phonology	V phonology