ExpMono: Formatives marking nouns and pronouns are monoexponential.
case | ’pot’ | ’ pot-pl’ |
Nominative | pūt | pūt-ǝt |
Locative | pūt-t | pūt-ǝt-t |
Lative | pūt-n | pūt-ǝt-n |
Ablative | pūt-nǝl | pūt-ǝt-nǝl |
Translative | pūt-yγ | - |
Instrumental | pūt-tǝl | pūt-ǝt-tǝl |
[Kálmán 1976: 44]
Case-marking suffixes only code case in Northern Mansi. Other grammatical categories, e.g. number are expressed by other suffixes. The translative case only has singular form (Kálmán 1976, Riese 2001).