| NOUN | communication | oblique case, oblique | any grammatical case other than the nominative |
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| Meaning | Any grammatical case other than the nominative. | |
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| Synonym | oblique | |
| Narrower | ablative, ablative case | The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb |
| accusative, accusative case, objective case | The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | |
| dative, dative case | The category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | |
| genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case | The case expressing ownership | |
| vocative, vocative case | The case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed | |
| Broader | case, grammatical case | Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence |
| Opposite | nominative, nominative case, subject case | The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
| Spanish | caso oblicuo, oblicuo | |
| Catalan | cas oblic, oblic | |
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