noun
case
A grammatical form showing a word's role in a sentence.
The ending changes to show the noun's grammatical case.
Etymology
Latin casus meant a fall and was used for grammatical inflection. The image of a form departing from its starting position underlies the grammatical term for a word’s syntactic form.
More examples
- Students identify the case of each Latin noun.
- The pronoun's case depends on its role in the sentence.
- This language marks several different cases.
Forms
case · cases