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A special case is the word you: originally, ye was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time, you has come to be used for the nominative as well. The term "nominative case" is most properly used in the discussion of nominative–accusative languages, such as Latin, Greek and most modern Western European languages.
Nominative case (1) agent, experiencer; subject of a transitive or intransitive verb: he pushed the door and it opened nominative–accusative languages (including marked nominative languages) Nominative case (2) agent; voluntary experiencer: he pushed the door and it opened; she paused active languages: Objective case (1) direct or indirect ...
For example, in the following sentence leaf is the agent (kartā, nominative case), tree is the source (apādāna, ablative case), and ground is the locus (adhikaraṇa, locative case). The declensions are reflected in the morphemes -āt , -am , and -au respectively.
objective (accusative) case (me, us, etc.), used as the object of a verb, complement of a preposition, and the subject of a verb in some constructions (see § Case usage below). The same forms are also used as disjunctive pronouns. subjective (nominative) case (I, we, etc.), used as the subject of a verb (see also § Case usage below).
For example, the word for "king" is rēx when it is the subject of a verb, but rēgem when it is the object: rēx videt "the king sees" (nominative case) rēgem videt "(he) sees the king" (accusative case) Further cases mean "of" (genitive case), "to/for" (dative case), and "with" (ablative case).
[dubious – discuss] Yet another case, the locative, is limited to a small number of words. The usual basic functions of these cases are as follows: Nominative case indicates the subject. Genitive case indicates possession and can be translated with 'of'. Dative case marks the indirect object and can be translated with 'to' or 'for'.
In the example below, 'son' and 'good' agree in nominative case because they are the subject of the sentence and at the same time they agree in gender because the ending is masculine. Likewise, 'the dog' and 'wild' share the same morphemes that show they agree in accusative case and masculine gender. In Latin agreement goes beyond nouns and ...
In other words, an A or S need not be an agent or subject, and an O need not be a patient. In a nominative–accusative system, S and A are grouped together, contrasting O. In an ergative–absolutive system, S and O are one group and contrast with A. The English language represents a typical nominative–accusative system (accusative for