Case / Suffix Sticker
What sign sticks to the word?
Maana
A visible marker attached to a word that shows role, relation, number, tense, person, case, direction, or other grammatical function.
Jinsi ya kuitambua
Look for small endings that change the word's role or meaning.
Mifano
-s|-ed|-ing|case endings|plural endings
dogs|walked|house's
The teacher corrected the students' essays.
Visual guide
word + suffix sticker --------------------- dog + -s -> dogs walk + -ed -> walked house + 's -> house's ending = grammar signal
Same job, different coding no ending: dog (context) word: plural marker + dog suffix: dog + -s -> dogs many endings can encode: role, number, time, person
Mtazamo wa lugha
Katika lugha yako
Formal MSA has rich suffixal morphology for case, mood, number, gender and agreement.
جاءَ الطالبُ ورأيتُ الطالبَ.
The student came and I saw the student.
Katika lugha unayojifunza
Bengali uses suffix-like case markers such as -কে, -র/-এর, -এ and plural endings.
বইটা টেবিলে আছে।
The book is on the table.
Learners may not recognize attached case markers as separate grammar signals.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.