grammatical case

English Thesaurus

1. nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	grammatical category, syntactic category,
definition	:	(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	nominative, nominative case, subject case,
definition	:	the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	oblique, oblique case,
definition	:	any grammatical case other than the nominative (noun.communication)