oblique case

Noun

oblique case (plural oblique cases)

1. 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.
   • 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...1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, page 13

   Synonyms:

   objective case

   Antonyms:

   direct case