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oblique cases

oblique cases is the plural of oblique case.

Meaning of 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

Questions about oblique cases

What is oblique cases the plural of?
Oblique cases is the plural of oblique case.

Words near oblique cases in the dictionary

  1. oblique arytenoid
  2. oblique ascension
  3. oblique bridge
  4. oblique bridges
  5. oblique case
  6. oblique cases
  7. oblique circle
  8. oblique circles
  9. oblique cord
  10. oblique cords
  11. oblique correction

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