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 -ként in the declension 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.
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.