This order is nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, instrumental and vocative. The cases are nominative, accusative, dative, ablative and vocative. Georgian has seven noun cases&colon; nominative, ergative, dative, genitive, instrumental, adverbial and vocative. There are seven cases&colon; nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative and vocative. The neuter nominative, accusative, and vocative singular always has no ending. Modern Greek has four cases&colon; nominative, genitive, accusative, and vocative. There are five cases in Kashmiri&colon; nominative, dative, ergative, ablative and vocative. The masculine and neuter forms differ only in the nominative, vocative, and accusative cases. The name is invoked in either the vocative or the accusative case. In both the nominative and vocative singular, the final disappears. All the cases except nominative and vocative are called the "oblique" cases. The absolute case combines the uses of the nominative, vocative, and (in part) accusative cases. There is no distinct vocative; the nominative is used in that role. These make up the modern genitive, vocative, and instrumental cases. Thus, the determiner precedes nouns in all cases except the vocative.