In linguistics, a vocative or vocative expression is a phrase used to identify the addressee of an utterance. The underlined phrases in each of the following...

adjectives, participles, and numerals) of that noun. A vocative expression is an expression of direct address by which the identity of the party spoken...

Direct address may refer to: Vocative expression, a term or phrase used to directly address an individual The direct addressing mode in computer programming...

English prepositions in, on, at, and by. vocative: used for a word that identifies an addressee. A vocative expression is one of direct address where the identity...

term used for identification of a person, thing, or class of things Vocative expression, a phrase identifying the person being addressed Address (disambiguation)...

syncretism: For neuter nouns, the nominative, vocative, and accusative cases are identical. The nominative, vocative, and accusative plural almost always ends...

is one of the most frequent words picked up by tourists (often in its vocative case form, i.e. μαλάκα malaka [maˈlaka]) and travelers to Greece and is...

Brutus, a second declension masculine noun, appears in the phrase in the vocative case, and so the -us ending of the nominative case is replaced by -e. On...

Kyrie, a transliteration of Greek Κύριε, vocative case of Κύριος (Kyrios), is a common name of an important prayer of Christian liturgy, also called the...

grammatical sources) it is much more likely that maṇipadme is in fact a vocative, addressing a bodhisattva called maṇipadma, "Jewel-Lotus" – an alternative...

vocative cases. The vocative case is now obsolete (but still used in certain regions[citation needed]) and the oblique case doubles as the vocative case...

('house', 'home'); merito ('merit'); piacere ('pleasure'); or in vocative expressions. If the antecedent of a third person possessive (being used as an...

separate form used for addressing a person (vocative case). In most nouns for women and girls, the vocative is the same as the nominative. Some nouns,...

Thomas's expression was an exclamation of astonishment spoken to Jesus but actually directed to God, and that John would have had to use the vocative case...

Valencia (Spain), signifying "hey!", "fellow", "guy". Che is mainly used as a vocative to call someone's attention (akin to "mate!" or "buddy!" in English), but...

"Cook (noun used as vocative), cook (imperative verb form)!", but also as "Cook (imperative verb form), cook (noun used as vocative)!". It is more common...

German translation, heil. Ave is not to be confused with Latin ave as the vocative singular of avus, meaning 'grandfather/forebear', or ave as the ablative...

of the vocative case but practically only -아 / -야 is remaining in everyday life. -여 / -이여 is only used in literature and archaic expressions, and -하...

address-form systems found languages such a Javanese to inversions of vocative kin terms found in Rural Italy); lexical processes such as synecdoche and...

declined for seven of the eight Proto-Indo-European cases: nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative and locative. The instrumental...

"O Muhammad") is an Arabic expression invoking Muhammad. The phrase means "O Muhammad". The word yā indicates the vocative case, signifying direct address...

rosa, rosā ("rose", in the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative and ablative). Categories can also pertain to sentence constituents that...

accusative (biernik), instrumental (narzędnik), locative (miejscownik), and vocative (wołacz). Polish has two number classes: singular and plural. It used to...

gestures to carry meaning (such as declarative, interrogative, exclamative or vocative). There are three arguments used to account for the functional version...

categories grammatical gender, number (including count form), definiteness and vocative form. A noun has one of three specific grammatical genders (masculine,...

meaning similar to "motherfucker" in English. It is used mostly in the vocative case: nenorocitule (male), nenorocito (female). Death is also a recurring...

allative (pašalys) (reduced to adverbs and certain fixed expressions) adessive (gretininkas) † vocative (šauksmininkas) Lithuanian has two main grammatical...

accusative, dative and vocative forms. Vestiges are present in a number of phraseological units and sayings. The major exception are vocative forms, which are...

(suck; imperative) Šone - Nešo (hypocorism, usually vocative) Šomi - Mišo (hypocorism, usually vocative) Kizo - Zoki (hypocorism) Rijama - Marija Kblo Konza...

accusative (akuzatīvs) instrumental (instrumentālis) locative (lokatīvs) vocative (vokatīvs) Latvian has two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine...