Talk:Nominative case

message: Question: Does this exist?
Is 'mine' in 'The book is mine' in the predicative nominative case?
If it were possesive, shouldn't it be:  This is 'my' book. --Confused
:It is a predicate nominitive. However, "predicate nominitive" isn't a case itself. It just happens to be always in the subjective case. --Davidstrauss 23:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predicative nominative 

message: An example would be just perfect to make the meaning understandable. How about a simple example in english??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.247.231.133 (talk) 06:21, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. This is one of the more useless wiki articles - understood only by those who already understand.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.78.13 (talk) 17:15, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Still don't understand

message: Obviously there isn't a huge amount of change on many of the grammar and language articles, but I thought might throw out a suggestion to those who are interested in language.  I have been trying to learn a few languages recently and have found the French Wikipedia/Wiktionary much more useful than the English version because many of the pages give the translation into several languages.  I would love to see this sort of thing on the English Wikipedia as well.  For general pages like this, I would love to see tables of the relevant translations in many languages.  I'm new to the Wikipedia thing, so I'll try to put an example of what I'm talking about below.  Let me know what you think.  If I don't see any responses to this in a couple weeks, I'll probably move my tables onto the main article.
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Number  	Person	Gender   	English      	French	Spanish 	Russian
Singular	1st   	         	I            	je    	yo      	я
Singular	2nd   	         	you          	tu    	tú      	ты
Singular	3rd   	Masculine	he           	il    	él      	он
Singular	3rd   	Feminine 	she          	elle  	ella    	она
Singular	3rd   	Neutral  	(archaic) one	on    	        	оно
Plural  	1st   	Masculine	we           	nous  	nosotros	мы
Plural  	1st   	Feminine 	we           	nous  	nosotras	мы
Plural  	2nd   	Masculine	you          	vous  	vosotros	вы
Plural  	2nd   	Feminine 	you          	vous  	vosotras	вы
Plural  	3rd   	Masculine	they         	ils   	ellos   	они
Plural  	3rd   	Feminine 	they         	elles 	ellas   	они
..  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.60.209.73 (talk) 05:56, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I like your chart but I'm also hoping to see the archaic versions of "you" and "yours" listed in it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.177.236.69 (talk) 16:12, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polyglot Wikipedia 

message: I can't find an additive case anywhere. It does not really exist in English (It is used when you are directly addressing someone. Examples are "O God!" and "Matthew, get over here!".). But regardless it does not exist in English, really. Why is there not an article on it? I figured that it may not actually be a case, just a part of the nominative. Anyway I'm confused. Someone help me?... -Panther (talk) 20:02, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The case used for calling people is the vocative case. — Eru·tuon 17:54, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additive 

message: Sorry if this is seen as misuse, but this is a bit of a reminder to myself. Reason being: The article reads as if all languages have a nominative. This, however, is not the case. Thus the intro paragraph (in my view) needs to either refer clearly to - "in English language", or else make the point that it is a "case" that only occurs in some language systems. 37.209.42.230 (talk) 12:23, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. The article seems to be trying to make all languages conform to one pattern, as some eighteenth-century grammarians tried to map English onto Latin. Snugglepuss (talk) 19:44, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs some love 

message: The current text attributes the concept of the subjective case in English to, "some writers on English grammar." Do any thoughtful, knowledgeable grammarians insist otherwise, or is it only reflexive prescriptivists who haven't really thought deeply about the matter? If the latter, should the text of that section be changed? Or I'd love to see a scholarly discussion of the other viewpoint. Jbening (talk) 13:04, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subjective case in English