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vocative cases

vocative cases is the plural of vocative case.

Meaning of vocative case

Noun

vocative case (plural vocative cases)

  1. case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.

Questions about vocative cases

What is vocative cases the plural of?
Vocative cases is the plural of vocative case.

Words near vocative cases in the dictionary

  1. vocationer
  2. vocationers
  3. vocations
  4. vocative
  5. vocative case
  6. vocative cases
  7. vocatively
  8. vocatives
  9. vocd
  10. Voce
  11. voce di petto

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