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vocative case ‎(plural vocative cases)

(grammar) case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Ruthenian/Rusyn Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Tamil and Ukrainian.

case of address

Arabic: صِيغَةُ اَلْمُنَادَى f ‎(ṣīḡatu l-munādā)
Armenian: կոչական հոլով (hy) ‎(kočʿakan holov)
Belarusian: клі́чны склон m ‎(klíčny sklon)
Bulgarian: зва́телен паде́ж m ‎(zvátelen padéž)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 呼格 (zh) ‎(hūgé)
Czech: vokativ (cs) m, pátý pád m
Danish: vokativ (da) c
Dutch: aanspreekvorm (nl) m, vocatief (nl) m
Esperanto: vokativo (eo)
Faroese: vokativ n
Finnish: vokatiivi (fi)
French: vocatif (fr) m
Georgian: წოდებითი ბრუნვა ‎(c̣odebiti brunva), წოდებითი (ka) ‎(c̣odebiti), ვოკატივი ‎(voḳaṭivi)
German: Vokativ (de) m, Anredefall m
Greek: κλητική (el) f ‎(klitikí)
Hebrew: יחסת פנייה f ‎(yakhasat peniyah)
Hindi: संबोधन (hi) m ‎(sambodhan)
Hungarian: megszólító eset (hu)
Icelandic: ávarpsfall (is) n
Italian: vocativo (it) m