Nominative Meaning

/ˈnɑm(ɪ)nətɪv/
B2

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adjGiving a name; naming; designating.

adjBeing in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.

All prepositions take the nominative.
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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CEFR Practice Quiz
In many languages, the subject of a verb takes the ____ case form.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In some languages, the ____ case is used to identify the subject of a sentence.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin nōminō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκή (onomăstĭkḗ)calq. Latin nōminātīvusder. Old French nominatifbor. ▲ Latin nōminātīvusbor. Middle English nominatyf English nominative From Middle English nominatyf, either via Old French nominatif or directly from Latin nōminātīvus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”).

"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:
"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:

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In many languages, the subject of a verb takes the ____ case form.
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In some languages, the ____ case is used to identify the subject of a sentence.

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