| 1. | Historically, the vocative case was an element of the Greek.
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| 2. | Many modern Indo-European languages have lost the vocative case.
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| 3. | Nouns with definite article can also be in the vocative case.
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| 4. | Ukrainian is the only modern East Slavic language which preserves the vocative case.
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| 5. | The vocative case denotes and is used for address.
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| 6. | The vocative case is not shown as this normally corresponds with the nominative.
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| 7. | Adjectives are also declined in the vocative case.
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| 8. | Weak adjectives are also used when the associated noun is in the vocative case.
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| 9. | As specified above, the vocative case in Romanian has a special form for most nouns.
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| 10. | Grammatically, although Czech ( unlike Slovak ) has a vocative case both languages share a common syntax.
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