tense, NOM-DAT ("children have drunk water") perfect aspect-present tense, DAT-NOM ("children drank water") perfective aspect-past (aorist) tense, ERG-NOM In Georgian, the -s suffix is the dative case marker. In the first sentence, bavshvebi ("children") is the subject and in the nominative case. Tsqals ("water") is the object and in the dative case (with the suffix -s attached). In the second sentence, however, the subject (children) is in the dative case (with -s), and the object (water) is in the nominative case. The verb in the imperfective and perfective sentences are conjugated in accordance with the subject of the sentence (regardless of the case of the subject); they are both third person plural. Perfect verbs also agree in part with their dative case subjects (in this case the -u- between da- and ), but only have third person verb endings (singular form for all singular persons and ALSO first person plural; plural form for 2nd/3rd person plural). Therefore, "I have drunk water" would be: (me) damilevia (-a is singular, -at is plural) The dative construction is also a separate class of verbs (Class IV) which have the semantics of experience, cognitive processes, and possession (all common DAT-construction predicates in languages which have them). An example of this can be given with the possessive verb kona ("to have"): ("The woman has a book") ("The woman had a book") ("The woman has had a book") In all the tenses, the subject kals ("woman") is in the dative case, and the object tsigni ("book") is in the nominative case. Etymologically, the root is also found in the future forms of the copula 'be', making it very much like the Latin dative possession construction 'mihi est X'. Again, all singular persons have an agreeing proclitic pronoun on the verb, but a third person singular verb ending (-a or -s). (me) tsigni makvs ("I have a book") Finnish The genitive case is used in dative constructions. The "dative genitive" (datiivigenetiivi) is no longer productive in Finnish language, and it is often replaced with other cases, except in frozen expressions, e.g. luojan kiitos (thanks to god). Minä olen kylmä. = I am cold (cold personality). Minun on kylmä. = "To me is cold." More often in modern language: Minulla on kylmä. = "At me is cold." The dative genitive is often used with verb infinitives. Minun pitää tehdä se. = "To me has to do it." =