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词汇 vocative
释义 vocative
noun
uk /ˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/ us /ˈvɑː.kə.t̬ɪv/
 the vocative
[ S ](also the vocative case)
the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that is used in some languages when you are talking to someone or something: 呼格,呼格词
I cannot remember ever hearing her use my first name in the vocative.我不记得她曾在呼格中使用我的名。
[ C ]
a word in the vocative case, or a word that is used to address someone: 呼格词,称呼语
We recorded the use of vocatives such as "Natalie" in "I like my tea strong, Natalie". 我们记录了称呼语的使用,如在“我喜欢浓茶,娜塔莉”中的“娜塔莉”。
In Et tu, Brute, the last word is not the English word brute but the vocative case of Latin Brutus.
He was the only living person whom she had ever heard using the vocative case.
We respond to God with the vocative as we respond to each other.
For this purpose utterances starting with vocatives such as Mommy, and negatives such as No, were ignored if they had been transcribed with the vocative comma.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: grammatical terms
ablative
apposition
appositive
appositively
attributively
collocate
concord
dative
feminine
genitive
indirect object
inflected
nominal
plural
plurally
post-modifier
postposition
postpositional
postpositive
syntax
vocative
adjective
uk /ˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/ us /ˈvɑː.kə.t̬ɪv/
relating to words used in the vocative case: 呼格的
The sentence begins with a vocative phrase, a call upon the deity.这个句子开头是一个呼格词,是对神灵的呼唤。
Yuan's eyes flickered at the vocative title "sei-sen" - "sword bearer".
The critic borrows a term from classical grammar and calls it Whitman's " vocative technique."
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: grammatical terms
ablative
apposition
appositive
appositively
attributively
collocate
concord
dative
feminine
genitive
indirect object
inflected
nominal
plural
plurally
post-modifier
postposition
postpositional
postpositive
syntax

Examples of vocative


vocative
Thus, diminutives are most likely to occur in phatic communication and vocative speech acts (subject to further pragmatic constraints).
In cases of uncertainty the default decision was to consider these utterances as cases of vocative with verb, and not subject with verb.
It is therefore important to investigate the relationship of vocative to referential usage within each individual dyad, not in general.
She uses vocatives and pragmatic markers from her corpus as further evidence to support this argument.
These constitute a distinct class of ' nominal sentence ' expressing a particular mood, 'vocative'.
In this speech community, the term has lost its former negative meaning, and is being used as a general vocative for an age peer.
Specifically, she shows how interview participants deploy pronouns, vocatives, and pragmatic markers to this end.
They occur a lot (see column (k) in table 4), especially in vocatives, and seem to have become set expressions.
It collocates in all cases with a vocative and is used emphatically to ask the addressee to pay attention to what is to follow.
There are seven cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative) and two numbers (singular and plural).
Adjectives in vocative and comparative constructions (cf. note 4) are exceptional since the adjectives inflect weak without being accompanied by a demonstrative or possessive pronoun.
Consequently, the initial noun or noun phrase should be seen as a vocative or identificatory address and the verb should be seen as an imperative.
The transcribers were instructed to do this if there was a clear intonation break between the vocative and the main utterance.
His vocatives indicate this: the detachment of "sir" (2, 9), the conventional neutrality of "thou" (5), the intimacy of "my friend" (5).
This paper is meant to be a step towards the provision of such guidelines, by a systematic examination of the way in which referential and vocative usages are related.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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