English Dictionary

vocative case

名詞

(grammar) case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.

日本語の意味

呼格：文法上の格の一つで、話し相手や呼びかけの対象となる名詞が取る活用形。英語では詩的または厳かな呼びかけに用いられる「O」に相当する。

When learning Latin, students often struggle to recognize the vocative case because it is infrequently marked and appears only in direct address.

ラテン語を学ぶとき、学生は呼びかけの格を識別するのに苦労することが多い。それはほとんど示されず、誰かに直接呼びかける場合にのみ現れるからだ。

意味（1）

(grammar) case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.

vocative cases （ plural ）