Essive-formal case
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In the Hungarian language this case combines the Essive case and the Formal case, and it can express the position, task, state (eg. "as a tourist"), or the manner (eg. "like a hunted animal"). The status of the suffix -ként in the declesion system is disputed for several reasons. First, in general, Hungarian case suffixes are absolute word-final, while -ként permits further suffixation by the locative suffix -i. Second, most Hungarian case endings participate in vowel harmony, while -ként does not. Third, the Hungarian possessive nominal suffix -é freely combines with case endings but not with -ként. For these reasons, many modern analyses of the Hungarian case system, starting with László Antal's "A magyar esetrendszer" (1961) do not consider the essive/formal to be a case.
