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This case in [[Hungarian language]] can express the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has ([[Essive case]], e.g. "as a reward", "for example"), or the manner in which the action is carried out, or the language which somebody knows ([[Modal case]], e.g. "unexpectedly", "speak ''German''").

An example of this would be in the sentence "Beszélek magyar'''ul'''." (I speak Hungarian.) The sentence denotes the ability of being able to speak the Hungarian language. According to [[vowel harmony]] rules, '''ul''' becomes '''ül''' in cases such as "Beszélek német'''ül'''." (I speak German.) because the word for "German", ''német'' is composed completely of median and/or frontal vowels.

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