Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oblique case

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English

Syllables: oblique -case
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"19. Cases of Nouns are six: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, and Ablative. As in the Latin and Greek languages, these cases are derived from the Nominative by certain rules of inflection; the Nominative being the root of all the other cases, is termed the direct case, the others are called oblique cases."

Inflected Forms

oblique cases (plural)

Phrases

grammatical case

Frequently Paired Words

grammatical case

Synonyms

objective case oblique

Antonyms

direct case

Questions

What does oblique case mean?: 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.

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