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vocative case

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Noun1.vocative case - the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed
oblique, oblique case - any grammatical case other than the nominative


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The examples cited in (10a,b, c) show that /-o/ can substitute /-e/ only in the context of low open back vowel /aa/ immediately preceding it but when high, close, front vowel /i/ or high close back vowel /u/ precedes the vocative case ending, /-o/ can't substitute it.
Its vocative case is plural, its homes, as in 'The Mud Room', at once precarious and capacious.
 
 
 
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