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nominative case

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Summary

nominative case is a case[1]. It draws 2,260 Wikipedia views per month (case category, ranking #10 of 65).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: inflected form[3]
  • Said to be the same as: direct case[4]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6], Towards a typology of morphological case[7]
  • Has effect: subject[8]
  • Short name: NOM[9]
  • Different from: fraction[10]
  • Exact match: http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#nominativeCase[11]
  • Entry in abbreviations table: Nf.[12]
  • P14892: NominativeCase[13]

Why It Matters

nominative case has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . eva.mpg.de. Retrieved . eva.mpg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 1331, 2721, 3341 +1
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ang', 'ar', 'az', 'bar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'bs', 'ca',
    P14892 → NominativeCase
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 4934, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7329968|nominative (#7329968)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 25d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/NominativeCase"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → case
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → inflected form
    Has effect → subject
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 9350, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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