Crossword-Solution: NOMINATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nominative | a. | Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. |
| Nominative | n. | The nominative case. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “NOMINATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Filled by appointment | 1 answer |
| naming the subject | 1 answer |
| the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | 1 answer |
| A case, in grammar. | 3 answers |
| Case in grammar. | 4 answers |
| BEARING THE NAME OF A SPECIFIC PERSON | 11 answers |
| CASE ___ | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NOMINATIVE (5)
The suppression of the relative, both nominative and accusative or dative, is not uncommon; and, until the reader becomes familiar with it, it often gives, especially if the suppression is that of a subject relative, a momentary, but only a momentary, check to the understanding of a passage.
They do not, for example, say "me is"; their natural reply to "are you?" is "I are." One child, pronouncing sweetly and neatly, will have nothing but the nominative pronoun.
When used (sometimes in poetry), the genitive in the termination is the same as the nominative; so is the ablative, the preposition that marks it being a prefix or suffix at option, and generally decided by ear, according to the sound of the noun.
They do not, for example, say "me is;" their natural reply to "are you?" is "I are." One child, pronouncing sweetly and neatly, will have nothing but the nominative pronoun.
The former were never very numerous; though the sounds of “nominative, pennaa--genitive, penny,” were soon heard to issue from the windows of the room, to the great delight and manifest edification of the passenger.
Quotes with NOMINATIVE (1)
ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, ablative, partitive, illative, instructive, abessive, adessive, inessive, essive, allative, translative, comitative. Sixteen cases of the Finnish noun. Odd, some languages get by with only singular and plural. The American Indian languages even failed to distinguish number. Except Sioux, in which there was a plural only for animate objects. The blue room was round and warm and smo…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1967–2018).