oblique case

English

Noun

oblique case (plural oblique cases)

1. (grammar) 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.

   Synonym: objective case

   Antonym: direct case

   • 1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, page 13:

     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.

Derived terms

• oblique case constituent

Translations

any noun case except the nominative (and vocative)

Armenian: թեք հոլով (tʻekʻ holov) Bulgarian: косвен падеж m (kosven padež) Catalan: cas oblic (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 間接格 / 间接格 (jiànjiēgé), 斜格 (xiégé) Czech: objektiv (cs) m Finnish: obliikvisija (fi) French: cas oblique m, cas régime (fr) m German: abhängiger Fall m, Casus obliquus (de) m, Obliquus m, obliquer Kasus (de) m Greek: πτώση πλαγία f (ptósi plagía) Ancient Greek: πτῶσις πλᾰγία f (ptôsis plăgía) Hungarian: függő eset Icelandic: aukafall (is) n Irish: claontuiseal m Italian: caso obliquo m Japanese: 斜格 (ja) (しゃかく, shakaku) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: rewşa çemandî Latin: casus obliquus m Polish: przypadek zależny m Portuguese: caso oblíquo (pt) m Romanian: caz oblic (ro) n Russian: ко́свенный паде́ж m (kósvennyj padéž) Serbo-Croatian: kosi padež m Spanish: caso oblicuo m Swedish: oblikt kasus n Welsh: cyflwr traws m Zazaki: halo çewt

See also

• Thesaurus:grammatical case

Further reading

• oblique case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia