direct case

English

Noun

direct case (plural direct cases)

1. (grammar) A noun case which covers the nominative and possibly other cases such as vocative and/or accusative (the precise definition depends on the case system in question; the term is used especially in simple systems with two or three cases)
   • 1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, page 13:

     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 are called oblique cases.

2. (grammar, obsolete) A synonym for the nominative case, based on the definition by Peter Edmund Laurent [1]

Antonyms

• oblique case

Translations

noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases

• Finnish: suora sija
• French: cas direct m
• German: Casus rectus (de) m, Rektus m
• Italian: caso retto m
• Latin: casus rectus m
• Portuguese: caso reto m
• Swedish: rektus

See also

• Thesaurus:grammatical case