oblique case
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]oblique case (plural oblique cases)
- (grammar) Any noun case except the nominative case (and sometimes the vocative case), where the noun is the object of a verb or the object of a preposition.
- Synonym: objective case
- Antonym: direct case
- 1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, page 13:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]any noun case except the nominative (and vocative)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- oblique case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia