direct case

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direct case (plural direct cases)

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  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]

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