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 (3,676 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • vocative case's instance of is recorded as case[3].
  • vocative case is a type of inflected form[4].
  • vocative case's Commons category is recorded as Vocative case[5].
  • vocative case's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
  • vocative case's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • vocative case's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[8].
  • vocative case's has effect is recorded as vocative expression[9].
  • vocative case's short name is recorded as VOC[10].
  • vocative case's different from is recorded as vocative expression[11].
  • vocative case's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#vocativeCase[12].
  • vocative case's entry in abbreviations table is recorded as Voc.[13].
  • vocative case's P14892 is recorded as VocativeCase[14].

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Definition and Type

vocative case's instance of is recorded as case[3]. It is a type of inflected form[4].

Why It Matters

vocative case ranks in the top 8% of case entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,676 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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: 2026-10-02}}
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  1. 14d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Equivalent class → —
    Instance of → —
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/VocativeCase"
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