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Like English, French sometimes uses (or historically used) a particle Ô to mark vocative phrases rather than by change to the form of the noun. A famous example is the title and first line of the Canadian national anthem, O Canada (French title: Ô Canada ), a vocative phrase addressing Canada .
The vocative case is now obsolete (but still used in certain regions [citation needed]) and the oblique case doubles as the vocative case. The pronoun cases in Hindi-Urdu are the nominative , ergative , accusative, dative , and two oblique cases.
Particle is a somewhat nebulous term for a variety of small words that do not conveniently fit into other classes of words. [3] The Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language defines a particle as a "word that does not change its form through inflection and does not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech". [4]
In linguistics, a vocative or vocative expression is a phrase used to identify the addressee of an utterance. The underlined phrases in each of the following English sentences are examples of vocatives: Sir, your table is ready. I'm afraid, Mr. Renault, that your card has been declined. Quit playing around, bozo.
Adverbs are commonly formed in Old English by adding -e to the adjective, which is the adjective's instrumental case. [6] In Old English, the instrumental case denotes means or manner, in such phrases as "oþre naman Iulius" ('by other name called Julius') or expressions of time: "þy ilcan dæge"; 'on the same day'. [6]
In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated NOM), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.
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The vocative is used in direct address, and is always preceded by the particle a, which triggers lenition (the vocative particle is not pronounced before a vowel sound). The first declension is the only declension in which the vocative is distinct from the nominative.