GRAMMATICAL CASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grammatical case mean? 

• GRAMMATICAL CASE (noun)
  The noun GRAMMATICAL CASE has 1 sense:

1. nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence

  Familiarity information: GRAMMATICAL CASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAMMATICAL CASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

case; grammatical case

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)