Talk:kuningas

Why is "accusative" listed as a case for estonian?

As a native speaker, we use the partitive, and sometimes nominative or genitive cases for this purpose.

And, the "accusative" form of "kuningas" is still "kuningat", as in "ta tappis kuningat" - "he was killing the king", although "ta tappis kuninga" is also valid, but the meaning is different, it means something like "he killed a king"

We've always learnt that we've 14 cases, and if 15 cases are counted, the 15th is always the instructive case, which only remains in certain words and expressions

Word "Kuni" is an ancient word for country, still used in Chinese and Japanese. Word "Asu" is an anctient word for being, still used in Chinese and in Japanese altered as "aru".

It is simply to put it.. Kuningas -- "Country's Being" - male derivation Kuningatar "Countri's Being" - female derivation.

If we convert this into modern Japanese, it would be said, "Kuni no aru". - However it can not be translated into female form as it has dropped from the use.

In asia it is common that men and women do have some words different as is in English. he and she.

In otherwords the word has pure origins in Asian languages and has been imported to Europe from there.

Gatar also has the meaning of destroyer", but it is not used anymore...
 * None of this makes even the slightest bit of sense. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 11:04, 25 June 2020 (UTC)