4PronCases: The pronominal case system has 4 cases.
Nominative | mā ’én’ | naŋ ’te’ | luw ’ő’ |
Accusative-dative | manem | naŋen | luwel |
Lative | manem-a | naŋen-a | luwel-a |
Locative | manem-ǝn | naŋen- ǝn | luwel-ǝn |
(Onina 2009: 30)
In Synja Khanty, the non-grammatical case-suffixes are attached to a modified form of the personal pronouns (i.e. the accusative-dative stem). Historically, the modified stems go back to a nominative stem + possessive suffix construction (Onina 2009: 30, Honti 1984: 70–73).