"quirky subject" meaning in English

See quirky subject in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: quirky subjects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} quirky subject (plural quirky subjects)
  1. (grammar) A subject in a grammatical case other than the nominative (used with certain verbs in some languages, e.g. Icelandic). Wikipedia link: quirky subject Categories (topical): Grammar Synonyms: oblique subject
    Sense id: en-quirky_subject-en-noun-aS8YDGZu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for quirky subject meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quirky subjects",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quirky subject (plural quirky subjects)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A subject in a grammatical case other than the nominative (used with certain verbs in some languages, e.g. Icelandic)."
      ],
      "id": "en-quirky_subject-en-noun-aS8YDGZu",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "grammatical case",
          "grammatical case"
        ],
        [
          "nominative",
          "nominative"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb"
        ],
        [
          "Icelandic",
          "Icelandic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A subject in a grammatical case other than the nominative (used with certain verbs in some languages, e.g. Icelandic)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "oblique subject"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "quirky subject"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quirky subject"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quirky subjects",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quirky subject (plural quirky subjects)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Grammar"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A subject in a grammatical case other than the nominative (used with certain verbs in some languages, e.g. Icelandic)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "grammatical case",
          "grammatical case"
        ],
        [
          "nominative",
          "nominative"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb"
        ],
        [
          "Icelandic",
          "Icelandic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A subject in a grammatical case other than the nominative (used with certain verbs in some languages, e.g. Icelandic)."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "quirky subject"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "oblique subject"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quirky subject"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.