The genitive, dative, and accusative are called oblique cases to distinguish them from the nominative and vocative. |
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There were five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and vocative. |
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Both Lithuanian and Latvian have seven cases nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, vocative. |
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Several verses start with an exclamation, a vocative, or a «Oh my Lord». |
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These cases were nominative, vocative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, locative and instrumental. |
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It reduced the Proto-Indo-European system of eight cases to six: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, instrumental, and vocative, though the last two were becoming obsolete. |
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Pronouns were declined similarly, although without a separate vocative form. |
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As this instance is concerned with family and clan, it raises the question as to whether this use of the vocative is attested in contemporaneous Brahmanical literature. |
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In Punjabi, the accusative, genitive, and dative have merged to an oblique case, but the language still retains vocative, locative, and ablative cases. |
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In sharp contrast to the vocative address featuring extensively in the nuns' section of the Pali Vinaya, it is absent from the Mahasanghika-Lokottaravada Bhiksuni Vinaya. |
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