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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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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Irenwee language (section Locative and vocative cases)
(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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(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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Declension (redirect from Case suffix)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Georgian grammar (section Case system)
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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receiving case show no overt morphology reflecting this process.: p.3 English lacks formal cases such as vocative case and ablative case (which can...
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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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Old Church Slavonic grammar (section Vocative case)
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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Slovene declension (section Vocative)
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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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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Latin grammar (section Vocative)
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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Bulgarian grammar (section Vocative form)
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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Romanian grammar (section Case)
case differentiation in nouns. Nevertheless, declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative)...
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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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Macedonian grammar (section Vocative case)
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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Romanian nouns (section Vocative)
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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Somali grammar (section Vocative case)
-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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months are also capitalised, as are the first-person pronoun "I" and the vocative particle "O". There are a few pairs of words of different meanings whose...
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