vocative case
Case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressedCase of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.
» The vocative is the case we use when we call or address someone or something.
Meaning
1 sensesCase of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.
Vokativ, Anredefall
зва́тельный паде́жzvátelʹnyj padéž
кли́чний відмі́нокklýčnyj vidmínok
- the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed
Examples
1 sentencesThe vocative is the case we use when we call or address someone or something.
Translations
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Forms
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Synonyms
1 synonyms- the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed:vocative