direct case
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direct case
noun direct cases
- 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) 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 a
- A synonym for the nominative case, based on the definition by Peter Edmund Laurent https://books.google.ca/books?id=66NWAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=direct&f=false
Opposite: oblique case
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Opposite: oblique case
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noun noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases
| Português | caso reto |
|---|---|
| Français | cas direct |
| Deutsch | Casus rectus, Rektus |
| Italiano | caso retto |
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title = {direct case},
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