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substantive cases

substantive cases is the plural of substantive case.

Meaning of substantive case

Noun

substantive case (plural substantive cases)

  1. A case of second objects, being a derivation of the comparative case but intended for larger, more substantial objects, and used to join or combine one thing with another. It corresponds roughly to a variation of the accusative case: I understood him (him in the substantive case rather than the accusative, since no action is performed on the object). Languages that use the substantive case include Chechen and Ingush.

Questions about substantive cases

What is substantive cases the plural of?
Substantive cases is the plural of substantive case.

Words near substantive cases in the dictionary

  1. substantivations
  2. substantive
  3. substantive adjective
  4. substantive adjectives
  5. substantive case
  6. substantive cases
  7. substantive due process
  8. substantive genitive
  9. substantive genitives
  10. substantive law
  11. substantive noun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substantive cases (page history and authors); substantive case (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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