These cases were nominative, vocative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, locative and instrumental. Sanskrit nouns have eight cases&colon; nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative, and vocative. This order is nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental and vocative. Luwian had six cases&colon; nominative, genitive, dative/locative, accusative, ablative/instrumental, and vocative. There are seven cases&colon; nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative and vocative. Tuvan marks nouns with six cases&colon; genitive, accusative, dative, ablative, locative, and allative. There are six cases&colon; nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, locative, and instrumental. These were the nominative, accusative, dative, sociative, genitive, instrumental, locative, and ablative. No u-stem remnants existed in the dative singular and locative plural. Some cases never take prepositions (such as locative and nominative). They are also often called postpositions or locative suffixes. Old English had an instrumental case, but not a locative or prepositional. See also Slovak declension for declension patterns for all Slovak grammatical cases, including locative. Animate nouns do not decline for locative case. The locative case is only used after prepositions.