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...
76 KB (6,248 words) - 14:09, 25 August 2024
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...
72 KB (6,638 words) - 21:20, 5 August 2024
languages, vocatives are marked morphologically with a particular grammatical case, the vocative case. English lacks a vocative case, but sets vocatives off...
3 KB (299 words) - 23:31, 30 November 2023
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...
10 KB (977 words) - 11:52, 22 April 2024
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...
14 KB (1,617 words) - 15:23, 21 August 2024
genitive and vocative case. In Punjabi, the accusative, genitive, and dative have merged to an oblique case, but the language still retains vocative, locative...
2 KB (294 words) - 01:22, 21 July 2023
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...
29 KB (2,535 words) - 19:13, 4 August 2024
(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...
35 KB (3,830 words) - 20:56, 30 July 2024
(syntactic) vocative case (V) is not morphologically marked anymore in modern Slovak (unlike in modern Czech). Today the (syntactic) vocative is realised...
31 KB (3,673 words) - 04:05, 15 June 2024
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...
44 KB (4,853 words) - 15:26, 18 July 2024
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...
105 KB (4,618 words) - 15:12, 12 June 2024
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...
16 KB (1,338 words) - 18:50, 19 August 2024
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...
32 KB (269 words) - 00:27, 9 July 2024
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)...
8 KB (840 words) - 05:38, 22 August 2024
are written without spaces. (e.g. seonsaengnim 선생님) Korean has the vocative case markers which grammatically identify a person (animal, object etc.)...
28 KB (3,232 words) - 12:45, 2 August 2024
Slovak, the vocative case is still retained in some common words, like mami — vocative (English mum) vs mama — nominative, oci or tati – vocative, (English...
119 KB (11,844 words) - 12:18, 25 August 2024
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...
5 KB (570 words) - 12:30, 6 July 2023
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,...
91 KB (6,022 words) - 03:54, 2 March 2024
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...
30 KB (2,779 words) - 00:34, 3 July 2024
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...
5 KB (507 words) - 11:26, 11 August 2024
Kannada grammar (section Cases (ವಿಭಕ್ತಿಗಳು))
case (ಸಂಬಂಧವಿಭಕ್ತಿ – saṃbandhavibhakti) locative case (ಅಧಿಕರಣವಿಭಕ್ತಿ – adhikaraṇavibhakti) vocative case (ಸಂಬೋಧನಾವಿಭಕ್ತಿ – saṃbōdhanāvibhakti) Because the...
43 KB (4,221 words) - 10:42, 10 August 2024
Romanian grammar (section Case)
case differentiation in nouns. Nevertheless, declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative)...
53 KB (5,165 words) - 23:10, 16 August 2024
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...
45 KB (4,732 words) - 23:06, 12 July 2024
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'...
61 KB (4,250 words) - 12:28, 19 June 2024
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...
253 KB (13,668 words) - 08:12, 20 August 2024
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...
24 KB (1,727 words) - 13:54, 25 August 2024
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...
12 KB (1,325 words) - 05:11, 16 July 2024
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...
44 KB (5,008 words) - 20:57, 10 August 2024
adjectives for combining them with nouns. The vocative case usually concurred with the nominative one. As in the case of noun paradigms, there were *i̯o- (fem...
97 KB (6,320 words) - 14:54, 25 August 2024
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...
3 KB (234 words) - 15:35, 15 December 2023