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direct case en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A noun case which covers the nominative and possibly other cases such as vocative and/or accusative (the precise definition depends on the case system in question; the term is used especially in simple systems with two or three cases)
    • 19. Cases of Nouns are six: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, and Ablative. As in the Latin and Greek languages, these cases are derived from the Nominative by certain rules of inflection; the Nominative being the root of all the other cases, is termed the direct case, the others are called oblique cases. 1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, page 13:
  2. (obsolete) A synonym for the nominative case, based on the definition by Peter Edmund Laurent https://books.google.ca/books?id=66NWAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=direct&f=false

Forms

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direct cases Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

oblique case

Relateds

grammatical case

Translations (9)

fi suora sija (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases) · hsb njewotwisny pad (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases) · sv rektus (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases) · de Rektus (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases) · pt caso reto (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases) · la casus rectus (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases) · de Casus rectus (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases) · fr cas direct (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases) · it caso retto (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases)