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# nominative

«nominative» in Mova's school dictionary: **The form of a noun or pronoun used for the subject of a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (nominative); noun (the nominative)

### meaning for a pupil

(grammar) The form of a noun or pronoun used for the subject of a sentence, the one doing the action. In English, "I, he, she, we, they" are nominative; "me, him, her, us, them" are not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nominative/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A grammar word used when learning languages like Latin, German, Ukrainian or Russian, where nouns change their endings in different cases. In English, it explains why we say "She and I went" (nominative) but "Mum saw her and me".

### examples

- "He" is the nominative form; "him" is not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nominative/#x1)
- In "The cat sat", "the cat" is in the nominative case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nominative/#x2)
- In German we learned the nominative and accusative cases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nominative/#x3)
- Latin nouns change their endings: "puella" is nominative. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nominative/#x4)
- Use the nominative "I" when you are the subject: "Tom and I won". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nominative/#x5)
- Ukrainian has seven cases, starting with the nominative. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nominative/#x6)

### note

Also called the "subject case". Trap: say "My friend and I played" (nominative), not "My friend and me played". Not the same as "nominate".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nominative» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nominative/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.