Nemniendlic cāsus
| Þis geƿrit hæfþ ƿordcƿide on Nīƿenglisce. |
Se nemniendlica cāsus (Nīƿe Englisc: nominative case) is grammatisc cāsus for namum. Sume ƿrīteras on Nīƿum Englisce brūcaþ ēac þæt ƿord subjective cāsus for nemniendlicne, in order to draw attention to the differences between the "standard" generic nominative and the way it is used in nīƿum Englisce.
Se nemniendlica mearcaþ, generally, þā forþsetennesse sumes ƿordes. Nemniendlice cāsas sind gefundene in Lǣden and Ealdum Englisce, ongemang ōðrum sprǣcum. Englisc hæfþ gīet sume nemniendlice bīnaman, efenāmeten mid þǣm ƿregendlicum cāse oþþ gebīegdum cāse: ic (ƿregendlic mec), ƿē (ƿregendlic ūsic), hē (ƿregendlic hine), hēo (ƿregendlic hīe) and ᵹē (accusative ēoƿic). On Englisce habbaþ ƿē ēac þū, se ōðeres hāda bīnama (ƿregendlic þec) and manigfealdlic ᵹē (ƿregendlic ēoƿic). Syndriglīce spricþ man þāra bīnamena ƿit (ƿregendlic uncit) and ᵹit (ƿregendlic incit), hƿonne man spricþ ymbe tƿēgen menn.
se nemniendlica cāsus is þæt geƿunelice, cynde ansīen (more technically, the least marked) of certain dǣlas, such as nouns, adjectives, pronouns and less frequently numerals and participles, and sometimes does not indicate any special relationship with other parts of speech. Therefore, in some languages the nominative case is unmarked, þæt is, the nominative word is the base form or stem, with no flexion. Moreover, in most languages with a nominative case, the nominative form is the one used to cite a word, to list it as a dictionary entry, asf.