The category of case in compared languages

Case is the form of the noun built up the means of inflexion which indicates the relations of the noun to the other words in the sentence. In the earlier stages English had a more developed system of cases by means of which various functions of the noun and a pronoun were marked. In old English there were: the Nominative, the Genitive, the Dative, the Accusative case forms. In the course of time the original Nominative, Dative, Accusative merged into one- infected form.