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Nominative meaning
Giving a name; naming; designating. | Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. | Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
Synonyms of Nominative
Example sentences (20)
A special case is the word you: Originally, ye was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time you has come to be used for the nominative as well.
Similarly, some words can have і in some declensions when most of the declension have o, for example слово (nominative singular), слова (nominative plural) but слiв (genitive plural).
The unmarked accusative/citation form may be called absolutive to clarify that the citation form is used for the accusative case role rather than for the nominative, as it is in most nominative–accusative languages.
This inflection distinguished nominative from oblique, grouping the accusative case with the oblique, rather than with the nominative as in Romanian.
This is because the 3rd strong masculine declension, to which it belongs, marks the nominative singular and nominative and accusative plural, but not the accusative singular, with inflectional ʀs.
She has doubled down on nominative determinism.
A distinctive feature of Japanese is the presence of two cases which are roughly equivalent to the nominative case in other languages: one representing the sentence topic, other representing the subject.
Also, only the pronouns' accusative is different from the nominative and/or genetive: minut, the accusative form of minä, "I".
Also, the nominative form of the feminine third-person singular was replaced by a form of the demonstrative that developed into sche (modern she), but the alternative heyr remained in some areas for a long time.
And in sentences denoting negative possession, the ending of the object noun also changes: :Nominative: (pol.) "Oto Irena" / (rus.) "Вот Ирина" ("Here is Irene").
Another class of consonant-stem words end in a consonant even in the nominative; if a stem vowel is required for phonotactic reasons, e again appears.
As indicated, kukaan is an irregular nominative; the regular root is kene- with -kään, e.g. kukaan "(not) anyone", keneltäkään "from (not) anyone".
As in English, there are forms for nominative case ( subject pronouns ), oblique case ( object pronouns ), and genitive case ( possessive pronouns ); in addition, third-person pronouns distinguish accusative and dative.
Because it is also used for the indefinite accusative, Lewis uses the term "absolute case" in preference to "nominative".
By contrast, nouns have no distinct nominative and objective forms, the two being merged into a single plain case.
Comparatives and superlatives of –er adjectives Adjectives (in the third and first and second declensions) that have masculine nominative singular forms ending in –er have different forms.
Comparatives and superlatives of –lis adjectives Some third declension adjectives with two endings in –lis in the sexed nominative singular have irregular superlative forms.
Compare: :lamazi kali "beautiful woman" (nominative case) :lamazo kalo!
Direction of motion can be expressed either by the accusative case, or by the preposition al (to) with the nominative.
Distinct nominative forms survive in a few nominal phrases such as der Däiwel ("the devil") and eiser Herrgott ("our Lord").