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.