vocative

• 呼格的；称呼的
• 呼格

voc-、声、呼ぶ、から派生し、語源的にはvoiceと同じである。

vocative (adj.)

early 15c., "showing the person or thing spoken to," from Middle French vocatif, from Latin vocativus (casus) "(case of) calling," from vocatus, past participle of vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)). The Latin is a translation of Greek kletike ptosis, from kletikos "related to calling," from kletos "called." As a noun from 1520s.

1. The vocative case is used to address someone by name.

呼格は他人の名前を呼ぶために使われる。

2.In Polish，the vocative is almost always different from the nominative case.

ポーランド語では、呼格が主格と異なることが多い。