In Classical Greek, the vocative case is usually identical to the nominative case, with the exception of masculine second declension nouns ( ending in-?? ), and third declension nouns.
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In current use, the Liturgy of Saint James may use the nominative rather than the vocative case of; the article is also not present in this form at the concluding " Hosanna ".
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Cornish has retained the vocative case, with the particle the same as in Scottish Gaelic and Irish, " a ", which causes the second state mutation ( lenition ) in the following word.
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By April 1973 Genie began regularly using verb particles in her spontaneous utterances, frequently using phrases such as " put back " and " take off ", and began using imperative sentences using the vocative case.
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(This oblique case is a relic of the original, more complex proto-Slavic system of noun cases, and there are remnants of other cases in Bulgarian, such as the vocative case of direct address)
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A common way of forming the vocative case is by adding the sound " ye " ( like in " yet " ) or " oo " ( as in " boot " ) to the ends of the names.
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The order Nom Gen Dat Acc Voc Abl is the standard order used in Greece ( both for the teaching of Ancient and Modern Greek as well as Latin ) and Italy ( with the vocative case before the ablative ).
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The " koledari " sung special songs, in which the word " koledo ", the vocative case of " koleda ", was inserted in the middle and at the end of each verse.
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Another variation in Russian language ( and Ukrainian ) is that personal names can occur in forms which language specialists call the " vocative case ", as a special way of saying a name in order to get someone's attention.
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The name " Brutus ", a second declension masculine noun, appears in the phrase in the vocative case, and so the "-us " ending of the nominative case is replaced by "-e ".
