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nominative

 
Dictionary: nom·i·na·tive   (nŏm'ə-nā'tĭv) pronunciation
adj.
    1. Appointed to office.
    2. Nominated as a candidate for office.
  1. Having or bearing a person's name: nominative shares.
  2. (-nə-tĭv) Grammar. Of, relating to, or being the case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words identified with the subject of a copula, such as a predicate nominative (as children in These are his children).
n. Grammar (-nə-tĭv)
  1. The nominative case.
  2. A word or form in the nominative case.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: nominative
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nominative (nŏm'ĭnətĭv), [Lat.,=naming], in Latin grammar, the case usually employed for the noun that is the subject of the sentence. The term is used in the grammar of languages with Latinlike features, but the case may in fact have different functions.


WordNet: nominative
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
  Synonyms: nominative case, subject case
  Antonym: oblique (meaning #1)


The adjective nominative has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: (grammar) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
  Pertains to noun: nominative (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: named; bearing the name of a specific person
  Synonym: nominal

Meaning #3: appointed by nomination
  Synonym: nominated


Translations: Nominative
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - nominativ
n. - nominativ

idioms:

  • nominative case    nominativ form

Nederlands (Dutch)
eerste naamval, nominatief

Français (French)
adj. - nominatif
n. - nominatif

idioms:

  • nominative case    (Ling) au nominatif, au cas sujet

Deutsch (German)
n. - Nominativ, erster Fall, Werfall
adj. - nominativ, nominativisch, nominiert, auf den Namen von (z.B. Versicherungen)

idioms:

  • nominative case    Nominativ, erster Fall, Werfall

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (γραμμ.) ονομαστική (πτώση)

idioms:

  • nominative case    ονομαστική πτώση

Italiano (Italian)
nominativo

idioms:

  • nominative case    nominativo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - nominativo (m)

idioms:

  • nominative case    caso nominativo (Gram.)

Русский (Russian)
именительный падеж

idioms:

  • nominative case    именительный падеж

Español (Spanish)
adj. - nominativo
n. - nominativo, nombramiento propuesto

idioms:

  • nominative case    caso nominativo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - nominativ

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
主格的, 记名的, 被提名的, 主格, 主格语

idioms:

  • nominative case    主格

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 主格的, 記名的, 被提名的
n. - 主格, 主格語

idioms:

  • nominative case    主格

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 주격의, 임명의
n. - 주격, 주어

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 主格の, 指名による
n. - 主格, 主格語, 主語

idioms:

  • nominative case    主格

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مرشح لمنصب, دال على حاله الرفع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮של יחסת הנושא או הישר‬
n. - ‮יחסת הנושא, יחסת הישר, נומינטיב, כולל שם (מסמך חתום), ממונה (להבדיל מנבחר)‬


 
 
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