GRAMMATICAL CASE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)