💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Direct case"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| directive casenoun | (grammar) Case used to express motion towards a location; generally indicated in English by down to, up to, toward, headed for etc. in combination with the objective case. |
| oblique casenoun | (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. |
| accusative casenoun | (grammar): In English and other modern languages, the case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the transitive verb acts. In Latin grammar, the accusative case (cāsus accūsātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-European accusative and lative cases; said Lative Case expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "to" and "towards". |
| casenoun | An actual event, situation, or fact. |
| rectus casusnoun | Alternative form of casus rectus. [(grammar, dated) The nominative case, sometimes grouped with the vocative case, as a single morphological case contrasted with the oblique case.] |
| subcasenoun | A subdivision of a case. |
| causal-finalnoun | (grammar) The causal-final case. This case in the Hungarian language combines the causal case and the final case. It can express the cause of emotions (e.g. value someone for something) or the goal of actions (e.g. "kenyérért" for bread). |
| coverbnoun | (grammar) Any of a class of words in various languages including Chinese and Hungarian whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions, and postpositions of other languages. |
| cacenoun | Obsolete spelling of case. [An actual event, situation, or fact.] |
| cislocativenoun | (grammar) A grammatical structure of this kind. |
| accusativus cum infinitivonoun | (grammar) A syntactic construction, very common in Classical Latin, in which the subject of a subordinate clause is declined for the accusative case and the verb is conjugated for the infinitive mood, used chiefly to express indirect statements. |
| corner casenoun | (chiefly engineering) A problem or situation that occurs only when two or more operating parameters are at extreme values, or when two or more unusual operating circumstances happen to coincide. |
| accusative cognatenoun | Alternative form of cognate accusative. [(grammar) An object of kindred sense or derivation; specifically, that which may adverbially follow an intransitive verb (for example, the word death in “to die the death”).] |
| acc. cogn.noun | Abbreviation of accusative cognate. |
| cogn. acc.noun | Abbreviation of cognate accusative. [(grammar) An object of kindred sense or derivation; specifically, that which may adverbially follow an intransitive verb (for example, the word death in “to die the death”).] |
| catenativenoun | (linguistics) A catenative verb. |
| count nounnoun | A noun which refers to something that can be counted. |
| chain casenoun | Synonym of gear case. |
| cogn. obj.noun | Abbreviation of cognate object. [Synonym of cognate accusative.] |
| caselawnoun | Alternative form of case law. [Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions, as distinct from statute and other legislation.] |
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