Latvian nouns have seven grammatical cases&colon; nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative and vocative. Commonly encountered cases include nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Prepositions may govern the accusative, genitive, dative or instrumental cases. This order is nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental and vocative. Icelandic nouns are declined in four cases&colon; nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Sanskrit deploys eight cases, namely nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative, vocative. There are seven cases&colon; nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative and vocative. Gaulish had seven cases&colon; the nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental and the locative case. Cases exist for personal pronouns (nominative, oblique, accusative, dative), but not for nouns. Cimbrian makes use of the nominative, dative, and accusative cases. In the past, the infinitive was inflected for the dative and genitive. Russian practice places the Accusative between the Dative and the Instrumental. Tamashek also makes use of pronominal dative clitics. Otherwise, most of the functions of the dative have been subsumed in the accusative. German often expresses a benefiter with a single dative case pronoun.