grammatical case
noun/ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl keɪs/
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A mode of inflection of a word dependent on its use, especially on its syntactic function in a phrase.
- The grammatical cases nominative and accusative are used for subject resp. direct object in many languages, including Latin.
- Synonyms
- grammatical case, case
- Hyponyms
- see: Thesaurus:grammatical case
- Holonyms
- word