oblique case

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oblique case - any grammatical case other than the nominative oblique grammatical case, case - nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence accusative, accusative case, objective case - the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb dative, dative case - the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case - the case expressing ownership vocative, vocative case - the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed ablative, ablative case - the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb