• In grammar, the vocative case (abbreviated VOC) is a grammatical case which is used for a noun that identifies a person (animal, object, etc.) being addressed...
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  • post-positional morphemes and case endings. The vocative is sometimes given a place in the case system as an eighth case, but vocative forms do not participate...
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  • languages, vocatives are marked morphologically with a particular grammatical case, the vocative case. English lacks a vocative case, but sets vocatives off...
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  • objective case (abbr. OBJ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative. A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally...
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  • (singular vs. plural), and four cases (proximate, obviate, locative, and vocative). Gender is marked only in the proximate case. The endings of the noun, with...
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    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...
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  • genitive and vocative case. In Punjabi, the accusative, genitive, and dative have merged to an oblique case, but the language still retains vocative, locative...
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    same thing. They would both contain five nouns in five different cases: mum – vocative (hey!), dog – nominative (who?), boy – genitive (of whom?), cat...
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  • list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an...
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  • (syntactic) vocative case (V) is not morphologically marked anymore in modern Slovak (unlike in modern Czech). Today the (syntactic) vocative is realised...
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    Before a noun, usually capitalized, it indicates direct address (the vocative case), as in the titles "O Canada" or "O Captain! My Captain!" or in certain...
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    Enochian appears to have a vocative case, citing Dee's note in the margin of the First Table of Loagaeth – "Befes the vocative case of Befafes". Compounds...
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  • are written without spaces. (e.g. seonsaengnim 선생님) Korean has the vocative case markers which grammatically identify a person (animal, object etc.)...
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  • Slovak, the vocative case is still retained in some common words, like mami — vocative (English mum) vs mama — nominative, oci or tati – vocative, (English...
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    masculine noun, appears in the phrase in the vocative case, and so the -us ending of the nominative case is replaced by -e. On March 15 (the Ides of March)...
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  • is a Scottish masculine given name. It is the anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name Seamus or Sheumais. It is therefore, the equivalent...
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    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,...
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  • 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 not...
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    grammatical cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, locative, instrumental and vocative; of these, only what used to be nominative and vocative cases survives...
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  • you translate this into Georgian?", Georgian is in the adverbial case. The vocative case is used when addressing someone. For example, a mother calls her...
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  • case differentiation in nouns. Nevertheless, declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative)...
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  • pronouns, etc. As the vocative case gives the noun a distinct charge of familiarity, directness, and immediateness, nouns in the vocative are rarely used alone...
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  • Stressed, unstressed is usually reduced to [əj] In colloquial Russian, new vocative has appeared from a pure stem: мам, пап, Маш, Вань etc. In the dialect...
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  • Latvian names has been Jānis, whose written use dates back to 1290. The vocative case is used when addressing someone directly, for example, Jāni for Jānis...
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  • however, there are still some traces left of the vocative case in contemporary Macedonian. The vocative case is formed by adding the endings '–o' or '–e'...
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  • nominative case. Some words, however, kept the vocative form, such as oče (instead of the nominative *otь̀cь) 'father'. Colloquially, vocative endings are...
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  • nominal systems. The nominal case category distinguishes 7 cases for nouns, 6 for pronouns and adjectives (no vocative): Old Church Slavonic has three...
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  • -eed, -aad or -od, depending on the final consonant of the root word. Vocative case is indicated either through a tonal change or with the suffixes -ow...
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  • in Scottish Gaelic and Scots, equivalent to the English James. The vocative case of the Scottish Gaelic Seumas is Sheumais, which has given form to the...
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    Vimalaramsi Grammatically "bhante" is a vocative case form of a Pali word "bhadanta" (venerable, reverend). The vocative case denotes and is used for address...
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