vocative case (plural vocative cases)
- (grammar) case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.
case of address
- Arabic: نِدَاء m (nidāʔ)
- Armenian: կոչական հոլով (hy) (kočʻakan holov)
- Azerbaijani: çağırış halı
- Belarusian: клі́чны склон m (klíčny sklon)
- Bengali: সম্বোধন (bn) m (śombōdhon)
- Bulgarian: зва́телен паде́ж m (zvátelen padéž)
- Carpathian Rusyn: вокатів m (vokativ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 呼格 (zh) (hūgé)
- Czech: vokativ (cs) m, pátý pád m
- Danish: vokativ (da) c
- Dutch: aanspreekvorm (nl) m, vocatief (nl) m
- Esperanto: vokativo (eo)
- Faroese: vokativ n
- Finnish: vokatiivi (fi)
- French: vocatif (fr) m
- Georgian: წოდებითი ბრუნვა (ka) (c̣odebiti brunva), წოდებითი (ka) (c̣odebiti), ვოკატივი (voḳaṭivi)
- German: Vokativ (de) m, Anredefall (de) m
- Greek: κλητική (el) f (klitikí)
- Ancient: κλητική f (klētikḗ)
- Hebrew: יחסת פנייה f (yakhasat peniyah)
- Hindi: संबोधन (hi) m (sambodhan)
- Hungarian: megszólító eset (hu)
- Icelandic: ávarpsfall (is) n
- Irish: gairmeach (ga), tuiseal gairmeach m
- Italian: vocativo (it) m
- Japanese: 呼格 (ja) (こかく, kokakú)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: rewşa bangkirin
- Latin: casus vocātīvus m
- Latvian: vokatīvs (lv) m
- Lithuanian: šauksmininkas (lt) m
- Malayalam: സംബോധിക (sambōdhika), സംബോധനാ വിഭക്തി (sambōdhanā vibhakti)
- Middle French: vocatif m
- Mongolian: дуудахын тийн ялгал (duudaxyn tiin jalgal)
- Norwegian: vokativ m
- Polish: wołacz (pl) m
- Portuguese: vocativo (pt) m
- Romanian: vocativ (ro) n, cazul vocativ n
- Russian: зва́тельный паде́ж (ru) m (zvátelʹnyj padéž)
- Scottish Gaelic: tuiseal gairmeach m
- Serbo-Croatian: вокатив m, vokativ (sh) m
- Slovak: piaty pád m, vokatív m
- Slovene: zvalnik (sl) m, vokativ (sl) m
- Spanish: caso vocativo m, vocativo (es) m
- Swedish: vokativ (sv)
- Telugu: సంబోధనా ప్రథమా విభక్తి (te) (sambōdhanā prathamā vibhakti)
- Turkish: vokatif (tr)
- Ukrainian: кли́чний відмі́нок (uk) (klýčnyj vidmínok)
- Urdu: پتہ m (patā)
- Volapük: kimofal, vokatif (vo)
- Welsh: cyfarchol
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