The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

Usage examples of nominative.

She still must follow citizen Anet as the feminine pronoun follows the masculine, or as a verb agrees with its nominative case in number and in person.

In the nominative case, an erroneous accent over the antepenult indicates that you take the last letter of the word immediately following the one wrongly accented, and so forth.

Whether Shangri-la, or Utopia, Paradisaical Eden or the Elysian Fields, whether The Red-path of Nominative Hyperbole or The Last and Most Porous Membrane of Cathexian Belief, there was a valley, a greensward, a hill or summit, a body of water or a field of grain whence it all came.

When a nominative immediately follows the verb, the pronominal suffix is generally dropped, unless required by euphony.

If only one nominative is expressed it claims all the participles that are not by the construction of the sentence otherwise fixed.

The remaining cases, in addition to the nominative, are the genitive, the possessive, the dative, the allative, the ablative, the locative, and the instrumental.

Thus the nominative ciryat "two ships, a couple of ships" corresponds to an allative form ciryanta "to(wards) a couple of ships" and an ablative form ciryalto "from a couple of ships".

In this respect, the allative and ablative cases differ from the genitive case: A noun that forms its nominative plural in -i always receives this ending before the genitive plural ending -on is added the genitive plural of lassë being lassion, not **lassëon.

The dual forms of the allative and ablative endings are -nta and -lto, respectively (at least in the case of nouns with nominative dual forms in -t.

Thus, starting from the simple nominative ciryat "two ships, a couple of ships": ciryat + -o for genitive = ciryato ciryat + -n for dative = ciryatn ciryat + -nna for allative = ciryatnna, simplified to ciryatna ciryat + -llo for ablative = ciryatllo, simplified to ciryatlo ciryat + -ssë for locative = ciryatssë, simplified to ciryatsë ciryat + -nen for instrumental = ciryatnen However, the group tn came to be disliked, so the consonants underwent metathesis.

Phonologically, the older accusatives finí and súlú could have produced Exilic Quenya fini and súlu, still remaining distinct from nominative finë, súlo but Tolkien appears to be telling us that the distinct accusative forms were abandoned altogether.

A scholarly reader wrote to point out that I had made this Goth use the nominative case where he should have used the vocative!

In the nominative case,an erroneous accent over the antepenult indicatesthat you take the last letter of the word immediately following theone wrongly accented, and so forth.

Sweet cowslip'sgrace Is her nominative case, And she's o' the feminine gender.

Note the subtle shifts of temporal perspective, and the refreshingly arbitrary substitution of the objective case for the nominative and possessive in pronominal situations.