vocative

adjective · nounB1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

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Superlative

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1.
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
2.
(grammar) Used in address; appellative; said of the case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective by which a person or thing is addressed.
In English, the vocative may be indicated by an addressee–address separation comma, or by the particle O, as in "What is the matter, sir?", "Mother, listen!", or "O Lord".

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

vocatives

1.
(grammar) The vocative case
2.
(grammar) A word in the vocative case
3.
(grammar) A vocative expression
4.
(rare)Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.

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vocal interjection

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocātīvus (for calling); a calque of Ancient Greek κλητῐκή (for calling; vocative case) – from vocāre (to call), from Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-, o-grade of *wekʷ- (give vocal utterance, speak). See Latin vōx.