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GRAMMATICAL CASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
Synonyms:
case; grammatical case
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("grammatical case" is a kind of...):
grammatical category; syntactic category ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grammatical case"):
nominative; nominative case; subject case (the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb)
oblique; oblique case (any grammatical case other than the nominative)
