oblique case
noun1
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Any noun case except the nominative case (and sometimes the vocative case), where the noun is the object of a verb or the object of a preposition.
- 19. Cases of Nouns are six: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, and Ablative. As in the Latin and Greek languages, these cases are derived from the Nominative by certain rules of inflection; the Nominative being the root of all the other cases, is termed the direct case, the others are called oblique cases.1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, page 13:
- Related terms
- grammatical case