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 indicates the subject of a finite verb: We went to the store.

* 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 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.

* Old Norse: The definite article was the enclitic-inn ,-in ,-itt ( masculine, feminine and neuter nominative singular ), as in álfrinn " the elf ", gjǫfin " the gift ", and tréit " the tree ", an abbreviated form of the independent pronoun hinn, cognate of the German pronoun jener.

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.

2 shows «< span style =" font-variant: small-caps ;"> Господь </ span >» ( Lord ) abbreviated to its first letter and stem ending ( also a single letter here, in the nominative case ).

One koruna equals 100 haléřů ( abbreviated as " h ", singular: haléř, nominative plural: haléře, genitive plural: haléřů-used with numbers higher or equal to 5-e. g.

German Alpen is the accusative in origin, but was made the nominative in Modern German, whence also Alm.

* 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 ).

*** For nouns, The is for the nominative, for the accusative, and for the genitive.

The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin draconem ( nominative draco ) meaning " huge serpent, dragon ," from the Greek word δράκων, drakon ( genitive drakontos, δράκοντος ) " serpent, giant seafish ", which is believed to have come from an earlier stem drak -, a stem of derkesthai, " to see clearly ," from Proto-Indo-European derk-" to see " or " the one with the ( deadly ) glance.

) 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.

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

Though widely used, it differs in form from the nominative only in the masculine singular of the second declension ( that is, never in the plural, never in the feminine or neuter, and never in any declension other than the second ).

: This is the nominative singular form of the Latin noun.

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.

Third declension adjectives with one ending have single nominative ending for all genders.

It is the oblique case of the nominative trobaire “ composer ”, related to trobar “ to compose, to discuss, to invent ” cognative with Old French trover “ to compose something in verses ” ( Wace, Brut, editions I. Arnold, 3342 ) “ to invent, to create ” ( E. Deschamps, Poésies morales et historiques, 261 in T .- L .) > modern French trouver “ to find ”, first mentioned as trover with the close signification " to meet, to discover " in the 10th and 11th century, before the other one.

Savitr ( Sanskrit: stem, nominative singular ) is a solar deity in the Rigveda, and one of the Adityas i. e. off-spring of Vedic deity Aditi.

Only one instance of their own endonym has been found to date: an inscription from Falerii Novi from the late 2nd century AD refers to the falesce quei in Sardinia sunt, " the Faliscans who are in Sardinia ," where falesce is the nominative plural case.

Modern English nouns distinguish only one case from the nominative, the possessive case, which some linguists argue is not a case at all, but a clitic ( see the entry for genitive case for more information ).

The case assumed by subjects is usually ( but not always ) the one named nominative.

For either alignment two core cases are used ( unlike passive and antipassive voice, which have only one ), but the same morphology is used for the " nominative " of the agent-trigger alignment and the " absolutive " of the patient-trigger alignment, so there is a total of just three core cases: common S / A / O ( usually called nominative, or less ambiguously direct ), ergative A, and accusative O.

One way to identify a nominative absolute is to add a verb ; one can always create a sentence out of a nominative absolute by adding one verb ( generally a form of to be ).

However, the English passive clause is intransitive, and likewise in ergative languages one of the voices forms an intransitive clause, whereas in Tagalog both voices are transitive, and so align well neither with nominative – accusative languages such as English nor with ergative languages.

The term monad comes from the Greek feminine noun monas ( nominative singular, μονάς ), " one unit ," where the ending-s in the nominative form resolves to the ending-d in declension.

The plural and some singular cases of the fourth declension have endings of the first one ( e. g.: singular nominative, plural nom.

For example, nominative nouns without the definite article form the plural by adding one of the endings-i ,-uri ,-e, or-le.

Zaliznyak therefore divides East Slavic area into two dialectal groupings: Proto-Novgorodian-Pskovian on one side, singled out chiefly on the basis of two features of the lack of second palatalization of velars and the ending-e in nominative singular of masculine o-stems, and all the remaining East Slavic dialects on the other side.

However, sometimes one of the vowels is changed to make the new word easier to pronounce, avoid ambiguity, or if the stem word is not in nominative.

The division is usually based on semantic criteria regarding the nature of the subject and the verb ; for example, if the subject identifies an agent ( an active or intentional performer of the action of the verb ), then it might be marked with one case ( e. g. the ergative ), while if the subject identifies an experiencer of the event or one who does not actively initiate it, then it might be marked with another case ( e. g. the absolutive or nominative ).

The nominative, ergative and dative are core cases, and due to the complex morphosyntactic alignment of Georgian, each one has several different functions and also overlap with each other, in different contexts.

Aryaman ( अर ् यमन ्, pronounced as " əryəmən "; nominative singular is aryamā ) is one of the early Vedic deities ( devas ).