Editing Manchu language (section)

===== Less-used cases =====
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* [[Terminative case|Terminative]]: indicates the ending point of an action by the suffix ''-tala''/''-tele''/''-tolo''.
* Indefinite allative: indicates "to a place, to a situation" when it is unknown whether the action reaches exactly to the place or situation or around or near it by the suffix ''-si''.
* Indefinite locative: indicates "at a place, in a situation" when it is unknown whether the action happens exactly at the place or situation or around or near it by the suffix ''-la''/''-le''/''-lo''.
* Indefinite ablative: indicates "from a place, from a situation" when it is unknown whether the action is really from the exact place or situation or around or near it by the suffix ''-tin''.
* [[Distributive case|Distributive]]: indicates every one of something by the suffix ''-dari''.
* [[Essive-formal case|Essive-formal]]: indicates a simile ("as/like") by the suffix ''-gese''.
* Identical: indicates that something is the same as something else by the suffix ''-ali''/''-eli''/''-oli'' (apparently derived from the word ''adali'', meaning "same").
* [[Orientative case|Orientative]]: indicates "facing/toward" (something/an action) and shows only position and tendency, not movement into by the suffix ''-ru''.
* [[Revertive case|Revertive]]: indicates "backward" or "against (something)" from the root 'ca' (see ''cargi'', ''coro'', ''cashu-n'', etc.) by the suffix ''-ca''/''-ce''/''-co''.
* [[Translative case|Translative]]: indicates change in the quality or form of something by the suffix ''-ri''.
* Indefinite accusative: indicates that the touch of the verb on the object is not surely complete by the suffix ''-a''/''-e''/''-o''/''-ya''/''-ye''/''-yo''.

In addition, there were some suffixes, such as the primarily-adjective-forming suffix ''-ngga''/''-ngge''/''-nggo'', that appear to have originally been case markers (in the case of ''-ngga'', marking the genitive case) but had already lost their productivity to become fossilized in certain lexemes by the time of the earliest written records of the Manchu language: ''agangga'' "pertaining to rain" as in ''agangga sara'' (an umbrella), derived from Manchu ''aga'' (rain).