"direct case" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: direct cases [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} direct case (plural direct cases)
  1. (grammar) A noun case which covers the nominative and possibly other cases such as vocative and/or accusative (the precise definition depends on the case system in question; the term is used especially in simple systems with two or three cases) Categories (topical): Grammar, Grammatical cases Translations (noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases): suora sija (Finnish), cas direct [masculine] (French), Casus rectus [masculine] (German), Rektus [masculine] (German), caso retto [masculine] (Italian), casus rectus [masculine] (Latin), caso reto [masculine] (Portuguese), rektus (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-direct_case-en-noun-lapLV5qC Disambiguation of Grammatical cases: 46 54 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'noun case covering the nominative and possibly other cases': 73 27
  2. (grammar, obsolete) A synonym for the nominative case, based on the definition by Peter Edmund Laurent [https://books.google.ca/books?id=66NWAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=direct&f=false [1]] Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Grammar, Grammatical cases
    Sense id: en-direct_case-en-noun-3BofCm7c Disambiguation of Grammatical cases: 46 54 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: grammatical case

Inflected forms

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