Prepositional case
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Prepositional case is a grammatical case that marks prepositions. In some languages, e.g., English and French, all prepositions take a single case; in others, e.g., Latin, Polish and Russian, multiple cases can take prepositions, and the same preposition can take various cases with contrasting meanings.
In a narrower sense, the Russian term "prepositional case" (in Russian predlózhniy padézh or предложный падеж) is used for a certain case that cannot occur independently, but only with some prepositions. Since the case is also used to denote (most) locations it is frequently called locative case in English and some other languages. The equivalent term is lokál (as opposed to lokatív) in Czech and in Slovak and miejscownik in Polish.
In the Pashtu language there also exists a case that occurs only in combination with certain prepositions. It is more often called the second oblique than the prepositional.
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