Does Dutch have case system?
Does Dutch have cases for nouns? I have the book called"Essential Grammar"..but it doesn't say anything about noun cases of Dutch, so that's what's baffled me...how to express "possessive"since nouns of Dutch do not have genitive case, but when I searched Wiki(which I use very often)...I find the description of Dutch noun declension...
het huis (the house)
Singular
Nominative het huis
Genitive des huizes
Dative den huize
Accusative het huis
Plural
Nominative de huizen
Genitive der huizen
Dative den huizen
Accusative de huizen
So...what's the proportion of noun declension?....becoz some says Dutch people do not use cases system that much now......

Question

Does Dutch have case system?
Does Dutch have cases for nouns? I have the book called"Essential Grammar"..but it doesn't say anything about noun cases of Dutch, so that's what's baffled me...how to express "possessive"since nouns of Dutch do not have genitive case, but when I searched Wiki(which I use very often)...I find the description of Dutch noun declension...
het huis (the house)
Singular
Nominative	het huis
Genitive	des huizes
Dative	den huize
Accusative	het huis   
Plural
Nominative	de huizen
Genitive	der huizen
Dative	den huizen
Accusative	de huizen
So...what's the proportion of noun declension?....becoz some says Dutch people do not use cases system that much now......

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You do have genitive case in Dutch but it is used very rarely.
E.g. De heer des huizes.

The nominative is far more important.

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http://www.dutchgrammar.com/en/?n=Grammar.DutchGrammar

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@ dank
Because I'm neither a native speaker nor a person who's staying there, so I gotta find resources to study Dutch, and the noun declension above is give by wikipedia...

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To answer your question about the genitive, in Dutch we use the word 'van' to express possession or when it concerns a person, you can add an 's'. For example, "This is Jan's bike" >  'Dit is de fiets van Jan" or 'This is Jans fiets".

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What you sum up here is the German system which is used to determine whether the adjective and noun need to be declined.

In Dutch we change the adjectives and nouns according to the gender and number (single or plural) of the noun. In fact, only the noun that is neuter and uses the indefinite article differs from the rest:

de grote hond, de grote honden, een grote hond 
het grote huis, de grote huizen, een GROOT huis