Essive-formal case
In the Hungarian language the essive-formal case combines the essive case and the formal case, and it can express the position, task, state (e.g. "as a tourist"), or the manner (e.g. "like a hunted animal"). The status of the suffix in the declension system is disputed for several reasons. First, in general, Hungarian case suffixes are absolute word-final, while permits further suffixation by the locative suffix . Second, most Hungarian case endings participate in vowel harmony, while does not. For these reasons, many modern analyses of the Hungarian case system, starting with László Antal's "" (1961 ) do not consider the essive-formal to be a case. On the other hand, it complies with the criteria set for Hungarian cases by modern descriptive grammars, namely that it can appear as a specific verb argument, such as in (’treat, handle as ...’), (’behave as ...’), (’graduate as ...’), (’find employment as ...’) etc.