| 41. | Nouns may belong to three cases : nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative and vocative.
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| 42. | :: : Yes, it's vocative, and an alternate form of the genitive of that name.
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| 43. | Often in formal speech the vocative simply copies the nominative / accusative form, even when it does have its own.
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| 44. | Hamilton dislikes the computer always taunting the crew by ending his commands to them with the vocative, " earthlings ."
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| 45. | Where there is no separate vocative case ( which applies to all plural nouns ), the nominative is used instead.
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| 46. | Grammatically " bhante " is a vocative case form of a Pali word " bhadanta " ( venerable, reverend ).
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| 47. | Additionally, nouns can also be inflected for the absentative, locative, and ( with some nouns ) vocative cases.
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| 48. | In the vocative, a name may instead be declined similarly to how words for near kin decline in the vocative.
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| 49. | In the vocative, a name may instead be declined similarly to how words for near kin decline in the vocative.
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| 50. | In addition, they have shortened nominative / accusative / vocative singular forms ending in "- ".
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