direct case
English
Noun
direct case (plural direct cases)
- (grammar) A noun case (usually the nominative case, and sometimes the vocative case) where the noun can be the agent or patient of transitive verbs or the argument of intransitive verbs.
- 1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, p.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.
- 1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, p.13:
Antonyms
Translations
any noun case except the nominative (and vocative)
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