As Paul says, it is really perfectly gratuitous ("es ist im grunde reine willkur") to call the case we have in German (and Old English) a dative, for besides the functions of the dative it fulfils the functions of the old locative, ablative, and instrumental.
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Learning Turkish cannot be done without careful study of its case system or functions: nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, locative, ablative, and instrumental.
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a locative adjective
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the locative case of a noun
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