vocative case

grammatical case used for a noun that identifies a person (animal, object etc.) being addressed or occasionally the determiners of that noun
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vocative case

Summary

vocative case is a case[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of case entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (224 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • vocative case's instance of is recorded as case[3].
  • vocative case's GND ID is recorded as 4359087-1[4].
  • vocative case's subclass of is recorded as inflected form[5].
  • vocative case's Commons category is recorded as Vocative case[6].
  • vocative case's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07_5m[7].
  • vocative case's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph979130[8].
  • vocative case's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 415.5[9].
  • vocative case's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0218074[10].
  • vocative case's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • vocative case's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • vocative case's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[13].
  • vocative case's has effect is recorded as vocative expression[14].
  • vocative case's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/VocativeCase[15].
  • vocative case's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'VOC'}[16].
  • vocative case's different from is recorded as vocative expression[17].
  • vocative case's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 2727[18].
  • vocative case's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 1412[19].
  • vocative case's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 3550[20].
  • vocative case's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#vocativeCase[21].
  • vocative case's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as vocatif-grammaire[22].
  • vocative case's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as vokativ[23].
  • vocative case's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i69653[24].
  • vocative case's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 4843237[25].
  • vocative case's related image is recorded as Modd cyfarchol.jpg[26].
  • vocative case's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/16706[27].

Why It Matters

vocative case ranks in the top 8% of case entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (224 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . eva.mpg.de. Retrieved . eva.mpg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . datcatinfo.termweb.eu. datcatinfo.termweb.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . datcatinfo.termweb.eu. datcatinfo.termweb.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). vocative case. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/vocative-case
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_vocative-case_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{vocative case}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/vocative-case}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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