nominative

CEFRB2

/ˈnɑm(ɪ)nətɪv/

adjective · noun

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adjective
Showing the person or thing that performs an action.
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adjective
Extra detail
Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.

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In Latin, there are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative.
Russian has six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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All prepositions take the nominative.
nominative fair use
To Duchamp, an artist's nominative act—the declaration itself regardless of the object—was itself the art. He could choose anything indifferent to, or even in spite of, its aesthetic merits.

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To Duchamp, an artist's nominative act—the declaration itself regardless of the object—was itself the art. He could choose anything indifferent to, or even in spite of, its aesthetic merits.
2014, Eva Diaz, The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College
A telling marker of the change in the reporter's status was the elimination of the nominative reports (that is, the citation of the reports by the reporter's name). The first state to use “state reports” rather than the nominative designation was Connecticut (1814). Many other states made this change in the middle of the 19th Century or began their official reports with state reports.
2007, William D. Popkin, Evolution of the Judicial Opinion: Institutional and Individual Styles, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 104

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From Middle English nominatyf, either via Old French nominatif or directly from Latin nōminātīvus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”).