Associations to the word «Vocative»
Noun
- Noun
- Singular
- Plural
- Instrumental
- Adjective
- Dual
- Case
- Gender
- Stem
- Ending
- Address
- Particle
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- Pronoun
- Nom
- Jesus
- Earnestness
- Morphology
- Kinship
- Vowel
- Speech
- Sanskrit
- Suffix
- Consonant
- Verb
- Name
- Person
- Syllable
- Phrase
- Wishing
- Grammar
- Discourse
- Pro
- Marking
- Legislature
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Adjective
Wiktionary
VOCATIVE, adjective. Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
VOCATIVE, adjective. (grammar) Used in address; appellative; — said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.
VOCATIVE, noun. (grammar) The vocative case
VOCATIVE CASE, noun. (grammar) 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: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Sanskrit, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian.
VOCATIVE CASES, noun. Plural of vocative case
Dictionary definition
VOCATIVE, noun. The case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed.
VOCATIVE, adjective. Relating to a case used in some languages; "vocative verb endings".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.