Toscead betweox fadungum "Nemniendlic cāsus"

Se '''nemniendlica cāsus''' ([[Nīwu Englisc sprǣac|NīweNīƿe Englisc]]: ''nominative case'') is [[declīnung|grammatisc cāsus]] for namum. Sume wrīterasƿrīteras on NīwumNīƿum Englisce brūcaþ ēac þæt wordƿord '''subjective cāsus''' for nemniendlicne, in order to draw attention to the differences between the "standard" generic nominative and the way it is used in nīwumnīƿum Englisce.

Se nemniendlica mearcaþ, generally, þā forþsetennesse sumes wordesƿordes. Nemniendlice cāsas sind gefundene in [[Lǣden sprǣc|Lǣden]] and [[Englisc sprǣc|Ealdum Englisce]], ongemang ōðrum sprǣcum. Englisc hæfþ gīet sume nemniendlice [[bīnama]]n, efenāmeten mid þǣm [[wregendlic cāsus|wregendlicumƿregendlicum cāse]] oþþ [[gebīeged cāsus|gebīegdum cāse]]: ''ic'' (wregendlicƿregendlic ''mec''), ''wēƿē'' (wregendlicƿregendlic ''ūsic''), ''hē'' (wregendlicƿregendlic ''hine''), ''hēo'' (wregendlicƿregendlic ''hīe'') and ''gēᵹē'' (accusative ''ēowicēoƿic''). On Englisce habbaþ wēƿē ēac ''[[þū]]'', se ōðeres hāda bīnama (wregendlicƿregendlic ''þec'') and manigfealdlic ''[[gē|ᵹē]]'' (wregendlicƿregendlic ''[[ēowic|ēoƿic]]''). Syndriglīce spricþ man þāra bīnamena ''[[wit|ƿit]]'' (wregendlicƿregendlic ''[[uncit]]'') and ''[[git|ᵹit]]'' (wregendlicƿregendlic ''[[incit]]''), hwonnehƿonne man spricþ ymbe twēgentƿēgen menn.

se nemniendlica cāsus is þæt gewunelicegeƿunelice, 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.