case ending

noun

noun

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A suffix-like element which indicates a word’s grammatical case, number, and gender.

In nouns and adjectives that inflect to mark grammatical case

In the Latin noun domine, the -e case ending marks it as a masculine, singular, second-declension noun in the vocative case.

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