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>> 763
They're not really cases, you know that?

They are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative_case

The dative was common among early Indo-European languages and has survived to the present in the Balto-Slavic branch and the Germanic branch, among others. It also exists in similar forms in several non–Indo-European languages, such as the Finno-Ugric family of languages and Japanese.