The case system for Lamian, my conlang, is standard throughout the entire language; they act more as a suffix would than a true declension, even though they carry the full implications of case markings.
Example: Lamas - Light
Nominative Lamas pl. Lamia
Accusative Lamam pl. Lamia
Genitive Lamai pl. Lamiai
Locative Lame pl. Lamie
Vocative Lam pl. Lamai
Locative case is used to express the location of the event taking place. For example, lore is the locative form of lor, which means shade or shadow, thus meaning "in the shade".
The vocative is not only the case one would use if addressing the object, but in some cases of genitive as well. For example, the vocative form of the word is added after the object, such as "Yaras Lor", meaning "Land of Shadow". It's usually for either place names or names of great importance, unlike the usual genitive case which can just casually describe any given noun, such as "Yaras Lorai", which would mean "a land of shadow".
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