nominative
Collocations
5ADJ.
accusative, basic, dative, ergative, fair, genitive
VERB + NOMINATIVE
states, take
NOMINATIVE + NOUN
case, declaration, objective
PREP.
in
ADV.
always, only
Definitions
adj
Giving a name; naming; designating.
nominative fair use
A telling marker of the change in the reporter's status was the elimination of the nominative reports (that is, the citation of the reports by the reporter's name). The first state to use “state reports” rather than the nominative designation was Connecticut (1814). Many other states made this change in the middle of the 19th Century or began their official reports with state reports.
Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
To Duchamp, an artist's nominative act—the declaration itself regardless of the object—was itself the art. He could choose anything indifferent to, or even in spite of, its aesthetic merits.
noun
The nominative case.
A noun in the nominative case.
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6nominative fair use
WiktionaryA telling marker of the change in the reporter's status was the elimination of the nominative reports (that is, the citation of the reports by the reporter's name). The first state to use “state repor
WiktionaryTo Duchamp, an artist's nominative act—the declaration itself regardless of the object—was itself the art. He could choose anything indifferent to, or even in spite of, its aesthetic merits.
Wiktionary'That' has only the two cases, nominative and objective, and it does not inflect depending on the case.
Tatoeba · #326785The relative pronoun 'that' has two states, a nominative case and objective case, but there is no possessive case.
Tatoeba · #328562All prepositions take the nominative.
Tatoeba · #2758118