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Meanings of vocative in English
Portuguese
caso vocativo Catalan
vocatiu The case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed.
Usage of vocative in English
1
It's called panis; genitive, pani; dative, pano; vocative, panus; ablative, pano.
2
I don't care; I take a different view of the vocative.
3
Other matrons, vocative, surrounded the circle, momentarily cutting off his view.
4
The vocative, 'O foremost of regenerate ones' applies to Jamadagni's son.
5
The Christian Brothers' Grammar gives Irish nouns three cases: vocative, genitive and the common form.
6
The Bengal reading Devesa, in the vocative, is incorrect.
7
Thus the expression "little children" in the vocative (John xiii.
8
In the second line, dwija is a vocative.
9
You see New York during its vocative hours.
10
Daksha is a vocative, meaning 'possessed of cleverness.'
11
Put out the light, and then put out THEE, light, making light to be the vocative case.
12
On these he rings what changes he may, by putting the verb before its nominative or vocative case.
13
O used as a vocative or to express a desire or imprecation does not call for an exclamation.
14
He has changes of cases, the nominative and the vocative being interchanged in the following verse (I. ii.
15
Rajaputra is a vocative.
16
And the cause of the mutation is that the nominative accusative and vocative seem to have a certain relation to one another.
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Frequent collocations
Vocative through the time