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For questions about grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative and vocative). Consider also using the tags 'declension' and 'morphologia'.

Latin has an extensive inflection system for nouns, called "Declension". Generally, a noun is declined into six cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative and vocative), and two numbers (single and plural). A few nouns have two additional cases (locative and instrumental).

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Shouldn't this *illis* be in the genitive *illorum* in here?

In the famous Caesar's sentence: *Perfacile factu esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse suae civitatis imperium obtenturus esset: non esse dubium quin totius galliae plurimum helvetii possent: se suis copiis suoque exercitu illis…
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