![]() ![]() ![]() The NOMINATIVE case is used for the subject of a sentence. The case we are going to learn today is called the NOMINATIVE case.Ĥ The NOMINATIVE case is used for the subject of a sentence For nouns, these endings are called CASE endings. Ex.: Those girls are my best friends.ģ In Latin, we use endings on the ends of words to tell us what the word is doing in a sentence. It’s the person, place, thing, or idea of which you are speaking. In copular sentences, the nominative is used for both subject and predicate.Presentation on theme: "Nominative Case Lingua Latina I."- Presentation transcript:Ģ What is a subject? The subject of a sentence, both in English and Latin, is the topic of the sentence. 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 nominative case marks the subject of a verb. English is then said to have two cases: the subjective and the objective. The genitive case is then usually called the possessive form, rather than a noun case per se. The term objective case is then used for the oblique case, which covers the roles of accusative, dative and objects of a preposition. Since such languages are a relatively new field of study, there is no standard name for this case.Įnglish is now often described as having a subjective case, instead of a nominative, to draw attention to the differences between the "standard" generic nominative and the way that it is used in English. In active–stative languages, there is a case, sometimes called nominative, that 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. The term "nominative case" is most properly used in the discussion of nominative–accusative languages, such as Latin, Greek and most modern Western European languages. A special case is the word you: originally, ye was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time, you has come to be used for the nominative as well. A usage that is archaic in most current English dialects is the singular second-person pronoun thou (accusative thee). English still retains some nominative pronouns, which are contrasted with the accusative (comparable to the oblique or disjunctive in some other languages): I (accusative me), we (accusative us), he (accusative him), she (accusative her), they (accusative them) and who (accusative whom). Nominative cases are found in Albanian, Arabic, Estonian, Sanskrit, Slovak, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Georgian, German, Latin, Greek, Icelandic, Old English, Old French, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Romanian, Russian and Pashto, among other languages. Moreover, in most languages with a nominative case, the nominative form is the lemma that is, it is the reference form used to cite a word, to list it as a dictionary entry etc. ![]() In some languages, the nominative case is unmarked, and it may then be said to be marked by a null morpheme. The nominative case often indicates the subject of a verb but sometimes does not indicate any particular relationship with the other parts of a sentence. The parts of speech that are often declined and therefore may have a nominative case are nouns, adjectives, pronouns and (less frequently) numerals and participles. Thus, the reference or least marked form of an adjective might be the nominative masculine singular. The reference form (more technically, the least marked) of certain parts of speech is normally in the nominative case, but that is often not a complete specification of the reference form, as the number and the gender may need to be specified. ( July 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. ![]()
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