Examples of 'vocative' in a sentence

Meaning of "vocative"

Vocative is an adjective relating to a grammatical case used for addressing or calling out to someone
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  • Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
  • Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"
  • The vocative case
  • A word in the vocative case

How to use "vocative" in a sentence

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At any time you use the vocative.
The vocative case is used when addressing someone.
The one exception is the vocative case.
The vocative is used for addressing people or things.
Giving up is never in the vocative of the successful entrepreneur.
The vocative is no longer morphologically marked.
Traditional male names usually have a vocative ending.
The vocative is used to indicate who or what is being addressed.
The nominative form can always be used as a vocative.
Vocative is used when calling someone.
Wenedyk also has a vocative case.
The vocative has an interpellation function.
Sometimes the noun in the vocative case is used as if it were.
The vocative case is used for direct addressing.
Kurdish has a vocative case.

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The vocative has the same form as the nominative.
Kajkavian has no vocative case.
The vocative singular is the weak stem without an ending.
There really is an equivocation which would be eliminated by a vocative mark.
In the plural the vocative is always identical to the nominative.
Note that only definite adjectives are used in the vocative case.
The vocative case is used to call or address someone or something.
I spoke in vocative feminine.
The vocative is the case used for addressing someone.
The text may also be translated as vocative as well as the traditional nominative.
The vocative case causes lenition of the initial consonant of names.
You only use the infinitive in the rare formal vocative case when.
Using the vocative is strongly recommended in official and written styles.
Weak adjectives are also used when the associated noun is in the vocative case.
The plural vocative has remained the same as the nominative.
Pronouns were declined similarly, although without a separate vocative form.
Nouns in the vocative case can not be determined by an indefinite article.
Proper nouns are never placed first in the sentence, except in a vocative sense.
The vocative case is used in calling someone or in getting his attention.
Thus, the determiner precedes nouns in all cases except the vocative.
The vocative is the case we use when we call or address someone or something.
The dative and instrumental were identical, and the nominative was used as a vocative as well.
Note that the vocative does not have both definite and indefinite forms.
All neuter patterns have identical the nominative, the accusative and the vocative.
Using the appropriate vocative is strongly recommended in the official and written styles.
Finally, all neuter nouns have identical forms across the nominative, accusative and vocative.
The vocative case occurs rarely in surviving texts and only in the singular.
Proper nouns usually also have vocative forms, but they are used less frequently.
The vocative case is not shown as this normally corresponds with the nominative.
The presumption therefore is against the belief that [ ho theos ] is a vocative in the LXX.
The Vocative is used when we address someone.
The social network site is home to other neo-Nazi pages, according to website Vocative.
The vocative case presents little problem for English speakers.
However, Bulgarian preserves vocative forms.
Vocative reports that Colorado marijuana tax revenues are lower than expected.

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