vocative

The nominative form can always be used as a vocative.

This happens because the vocative is often perceived as very direct and thus can seem rude.

I don't care; I take a different view of the vocative.

The vocative is used to indicate who or what is being addressed.

The use of the vocative is confined to personal names, in which case it is common.

Using the appropriate vocative is strongly recommended in the official and written styles.

The plural vocative has remained the same as the nominative.

No prepositions are matched with the vocative, because it is used for addressing people only.

The forms of the vocative are as follows.

There is no distinct vocative; the nominative is used in that role.

It is also used to mark a nominal predicate (who or what something turns into/becomes) and as a vocative.

The nominative is increasingly used in place of the vocative when addressing people with their proper names.

(Note that the vocative does not have both definite and indefinite forms.

He had just heard about Baldric and his party leaving, and was speaking entirely in the vocative.

The vocative is used almost exclusively for singular masculine and feminine nouns.

Foreign names (not of Manx origin) are not used in the vocative.

Breton seems to have lost the vocative.

The non-core cases are the genitive, the instrumental, the adverbial and the vocative.

In other contexts the vocative remains prevalent.

The vocative is less used than the other four, because it is limited to people, animals, or other things that can be addressed.

The vocative is used when addressing a person or a thing, in all other cases the nominative is used.

In Bulgarian and Macedonian, on the other hand, this development has actually led to the loss of all cases except the vocative.

I have turned to what I have found pre vocative in order to flex my creative muscles.

The following are examples of proper nouns that are frequently used in vocative:

Vocative is mostly lacking and replaced by a nominative in appellating construction.

He was the only living person whom she had ever heard using the vocative case.

The vocative case, which is used to address someone or something in direct speech.

Also, verbs can require an object to use the vocative case.

The vocative case indicates an addressee: John, are you all right?

Note that only definite adjectives are used in the vocative case.

Nouns with definite article can also be in the vocative case.

The vocative singular is the weak stem without an ending.

The singular vocative use was once common but has become mostly confined to poetry.

The vocative case is almost always the same as the nominative case.

Pronouns were declined similarly, although without a separate vocative form.

Proper nouns usually also have vocative forms, even though they are used less frequently.

The proper term of address is to use the vocative case, which is to put the word before the given name.

Vocative forms in different languages appear to be highly idiosyncratic and complex.

The vocative case is used in addressing someone.

Nouns in the vocative case cannot be determined by an indefinite article.

Weak adjectives are also used when the associated noun is in the vocative case.

Traditional male names usually have a vocative case.

Ukrainian has retained the vocative case mostly as it was in common Slavic.

As specified above, the vocative case in Romanian has a special form for most nouns.

For second person, there is also a set of independent vocative pronouns, used to call the addressee.

Feminine nouns which end in a consonant do not have vocative forms.

Their functions as intensifiers and interjections are taken up by using the vocative case.

Note the lack of second- and third-person vocative forms.

Vocative case forms also normally exist for female given names:

The vocative case is not shown as this normally corresponds with the nominative.