The cases are nominative, accusative, dative, ablative and vocative. These cases were nominative, vocative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, locative and instrumental. Sanskrit deploys eight cases, namely nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative, vocative. The locative plural was already identical to the dative and ablative plural. Tuvan marks nouns with six cases&colon; genitive, accusative, dative, ablative, locative, and allative. There are five important cases for Latin nouns&colon; nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative. These were the nominative, accusative, dative, sociative, genitive, instrumental, locative, and ablative. There are five cases in Kashmiri&colon; nominative, dative, ergative, ablative and vocative. Yag lasers, with ablative and coagulation effects. Supines only occur in the accusative and ablative cases. The accusative case developed as a prepositional case, displacing many instances of the ablative. The ablative had merged with the genitive. Direct laser engraving of an ablative surface allows direct-to-plate exposure of photopolymer plates. Also, systems based on arrays of mechanical and thermally ablative probe tips have been demonstrated. Cases such as the ablative are therefore called "adverbial".