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the vocative [S](alsothe vocative case)theformof anoun,pronoun, oradjectivethat is used in somelanguageswhen you aretalkingto someone or something: 呼格,呼格词 I cannotremembereverhearingher use my firstnamein the vocative.我不记得她曾在呼格中使用我的名。 [C]a word in the vocativecase, or a word that is used toaddresssomeone: 呼格词,称呼语 Werecordedthe use of vocatives such as "Natalie" in "I like myteastrong, Natalie".我们记录了称呼语的使用,如在“我喜欢浓茶,娜塔莉”中的“娜塔莉”。 - In Et tu, Brute, the last word is not theEnglishwordbrutebut the vocativecaseofLatinBrutus.
- He was the onlylivingpersonwhom she hadeverheardusing the vocativecase.
- WerespondtoGodwith the vocative as werespondto each other.
- For thispurposeutterancesstartingwith vocatives such as Mommy, andnegativessuch as No, wereignoredif they had beentranscribedwith the vocativecomma.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesLinguistics: grammatical terms - ablative
- apposition
- appositive
- appositively
- attributively
- concord
- countable
- demonstrative
- feminine
- intensifier
- nominative
- particle
- predicatively
- premodifier
- regularity
- singular
- stative
- syntactic
- syntax
- uncountable
See more results » relatingto words used in the vocativecase: 呼格的Thesentencebeginswith a vocative phrase, acallupon thedeity.这个句子开头是一个呼格词,是对神灵的呼唤。 - Yuan'seyesflickeredat the vocativetitle"sei-sen" - "swordbearer".
- Thecriticborrowsatermfromclassicalgrammarandcallsit Whitman's " vocativetechnique."
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesLinguistics: grammatical terms - ablative
- apposition
- appositive
- appositively
- attributively
- concord
- countable
- demonstrative
- feminine
- intensifier
- nominative
- particle
- predicatively
- premodifier
- regularity
- singular
- stative
- syntactic
- syntax
- uncountable
See more results » (Definition ofvocativefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofvocativevocative Thus, diminutives are most likely to occur in phatic communication andvocativespeech acts (subject to further pragmatic constraints).From theCambridge English Corpus In cases of uncertainty the default decision was to consider these utterances as cases ofvocativewith verb, and not subject with verb.From theCambridge English Corpus It is therefore important to investigate the relationship ofvocativeto referential usage within each individual dyad, not in general.From theCambridge English Corpus She uses vocatives and pragmatic markers from her corpus as further evidence to support this argument.From theCambridge English Corpus These constitute a distinct class of ' nominal sentence ' expressing a particular mood, 'vocative'.From theCambridge English Corpus In this speech community, the term has lost its former negative meaning, and is being used as a generalvocativefor an age peer.From theCambridge English Corpus Specifically, she shows how interview participants deploy pronouns, vocatives, and pragmatic markers to this end.From theCambridge English Corpus They occur a lot (see column (k) in table 4), especially in vocatives, and seem to have become set expressions.From theCambridge English Corpus It collocates in all cases with avocativeand is used emphatically to ask the addressee to pay attention to what is to follow.From theCambridge English Corpus There are seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, andvocative) and two numbers (singular and plural).From theCambridge English Corpus Adjectives invocativeand comparative constructions (cf. note 4) are exceptional since the adjectives inflect weak without being accompanied by a demonstrative or possessive pronoun.From theCambridge English Corpus Consequently, the initial noun or noun phrase should be seen as avocativeor identificatory address and the verb should be seen as an imperative.From theCambridge English Corpus The transcribers were instructed to do this if there was a clear intonation break between thevocativeand the main utterance.From theCambridge English Corpus His vocatives indicate this: the detachment of "sir" (2, 9), the conventional neutrality of "thou" (5), the intimacy of "my friend" (5).From theCambridge English Corpus This paper is meant to be a step towards the provision of such guidelines, by a systematic examination of the way in which referential andvocativeusages are related.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/vocative## |