It is a noun that is having something done to it, usually joined ( such as in Latin ) with the nominative case, making it an indirect object.

This is the form in the nominative case, used for the subject of a sentence.

The pronoun whom is a remnant of the dative case in English, descending from the Old English dative pronoun " hwām " ( as opposed to the nominative " who ", which descends from Old English " hwā ") — though " whom " also absorbed the functions of the Old English accusative pronoun " hwone ".

Here, the subject, Ich, is in the nominative case, the direct object, das Buch, is in the accusative case, and zum Verleger is in the dative case, since zu always requires the dative ( zum is a contraction of zu + dem ).

In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number ( at least singular and plural ), case ( nominative or subjective, genitive or possessive, etc.

By contrast, nouns have no distinct nominative and objective forms, the two being merged into a single plain case.

Some count vocative not as a separate case, despite it having a distinctive ending in the singular, but consider it as a different use of the nominative.

Nouns and adjectives have two cases, nominative / oblique and accusative / allative, and two numbers, singular and plural ; the adjectival form of personal pronouns behaves like a genitive case.

In addition to indicating direct objects, the accusative / allative case is used with nouns, adjectives and adverbs to show the destination of a motion, or to replace certain prepositions ; the nominative / oblique is used in all other situations.

This occurs in the context of Irenaeus ' work On the Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called, ( Greek: elenchos kai anatrope tes pseudonymou gnoseos genitive case, ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ) where the term " knowledge falsely so-called " ( nominative case pseudonymos gnosis ) covers various groups, not just Valentinus, and is a quotation of the apostle Paul's warning against " knowledge falsely so-called " in 1 Timothy 6: 20.

In many European languages, the word for " case " is cognate to the English word, all stemming from the Latin casus, related to the verb cadere, " to fall ", with the sense that all other cases have fallen away from the nominative.

On this sign in Russian memorializing an anniversary of the city of Balakhna, the word Balakhna on the right is in the nominative case, while the word Balakhne is in the dative case in Balakhne 500 Let (' Balakhna is 500 years old ') on the front of the sign.

* The nominative case ( subjective pronouns such as I, he, she, we ), used for the subject of a finite verb and sometimes for the complement of a copula.

Most English personal pronouns have five forms ; in addition to the nominative and oblique case forms, the possessive case has both a determiner form ( such as my, our ) and a distinct independent form ( such as mine, ours ) ( with the exceptions that these are not distinct for the third person singular masculine car, it is his and that the third person singular neuter it does not have the possessive independent form ); and they have a distinct reflexive or intensive form ( such as myself, ourselves ).

Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge ( in the nominative case γνῶσις f .).

Nevertheless he was also aware of the criticisms, and quoted Lord Salisbury as saying that " aether is little more than a nominative case of the verb to undulate ".

The evolution of the “- mir ” element to “- mierz ” is due to two separate developments: first, the regular change of the vowel " i " to "( i ) e " before " r ", and second, the modification of the nominative case by the vocative for certain names ( hence, Kazimierz replaced Kazimier based on the vocative Kazimierze ).

The nominative case ( abbreviated ) is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb or the predicate noun or predicate adjective, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments.

The reference form ( more technically, the least marked ) of certain parts of speech is normally in the nominative case, but this is often not a complete specification of the reference form, as it may also be necessary to specify such as the number and gender.

The nominative case often indicates the subject of a verb but sometimes does not indicate any particular relationship with other parts of a sentence.

Like the other Uralic languages, the nominative singular is unmarked and indicates the subject of a predicate.

* as the subject of an indirect statement ( e. g. Dixit me fuisse saevum, " He said that I had been cruel ;" in later Latin works, such as the Vulgate, such a construction is replaced by quod and a regularly structured sentence, having the subject in the nominative: e. g., Dixit quod ego fueram saevus ).

* ( nominative ) " man " a subject ( e. g., the man is standing there )

Many aspects of the syntax of Greek have remained constant: verbs agree with their subject only, the use of the surviving cases is largely intact ( nominative for subjects and predicates, accusative for objects of most verbs and many prepositions, genitive for possessors ), articles precede nouns, adpositions are largely prepositional, relative clauses follow the noun they modify, relative pronouns are clause-initial.

* nauta ( nominative ) " sailor " a subject ( e. g. nauta ibi stat the sailor is standing there )

In active – stative languages there is a case sometimes called nominative which is the most marked case and is used for the subject of a transitive verb or a voluntary subject of an intransitive verb but not for an involuntary subject of an intransitive verb ; since such languages are a relatively new field of study, there is no standard name for this case.

The nominative case marks the subject of a verb.

The nominative also marks things equal to the subject ( that is, a predicate noun or adjective ).

In the context of a nominative – accusative language like English, this promotion is nonsensical because intransitive verbs don't take objects, they take subjects, and so the subject of a transitive verb (" I " in I hug him ) is also the subject of the intransitive passive construction ( I was hugged by him ).

In the Holy Roman Empire, and to a degree in its successor states the German Confederation and the German Empire, so-called " free imperial cities " ( nominative singular freie Reichsstadt, nominative plural freie Reichsstädte ) held the legal status of imperial immediacy, according to which they were not subinfeudated to any vassal ruler and were instead subject to the authority of the Emperor alone.

Example of the nominative – accusative pattern: i < sub > 3 </ sub >- du-un (< * i < sub > 3 </ sub >- du-en ) " I go ( away )"; e < sub > 2 </ sub > ib < sub > 2 </ sub >- du < sub > 3 </ sub >- un (< * ib < sub > 2 </ sub >- du < sub > 3 </ sub >- en ) " I build the house " ( the transitive subject is expressed in the same way as the intransitive subject, as both verbs takes the same 1st person singular suffix-en ).

Typologically, it is a highly agglutinating language with subject – verb – object word order and nominative – accusative morphosyntactic alignment.

In this construct, the subject ( the Logos ) and the complement ( God ) both appear in the nominative case, and the complement is therefore usually distinguished by dropping any article, and moving it before the verb.

A ( pro ) noun in the oblique case can generally appear in any role except as subject, for which the nominative case is used.

For most nominative – accusative languages which have a major word class of nouns and clauses which include subject and object, constituent word order is commonly defined in terms of the finite verb ( V ) and its arguments, the subject ( S ) and object ( O ).

In English, the subject can or must agree with the finite verb in person and number, and in languages that have morphological case, the subject and object ( and other verb arguments ) are identified in terms of the case markers that they bear ( e. g. nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ergative, absolutive, etc .).

) In addition, a few English pronouns have distinct nominative and objective forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a verb or preposition.

When the verb is active, the nominative is the person or thing doing the action ( agent ); when the verb is passive, the nominative is the person or thing receiving the action.

The absolutive case ( abbreviated ) is the unmarked grammatical case of a core argument of a verb ( generally other than the nominative ) which is used as the citation form of a noun.

The main source of confusion is when the word follows a verb, in which case it may be a predicate adjective and hence a participle, or a direct object or predicate nominative and hence a gerund.

It is the unmarked voice for clauses featuring a transitive verb in nominative – accusative languages, including English and most other Indo-European languages.

In such languages, the subject of a verb is marked for nominative case, but the object is unmarked, as are citation forms and objects of prepositions.

This contrasts with nominative – accusative languages, such as English, where the agent of a transitive verb and the single argument of an intransitive verb are treated alike ( called a subject ) and kept distinct from the object of a transitive verb.