31. "Danann " is generally believed to be the genitive of a female name, for which the nominative case is not attested. 32. Other words use the forms of the genitive case or the nominative case in place of the accusative, depending on their animacy. 33. The Nominative case pronouns are used for the subjects of transitive and intransitive verbs, the accusative pronouns for the objects of transitives. 34. Pronouns in the vocative case in Romanian, which is used for exclamations, or summoning, also take the forms of the nominative case . 35. Although it is adjectival, it exists only in the nominative case , and declines for gender and number ( not for person ). 36. :Could be from Old French nominative case forms ( though I'm not familiar with the detailed etymology of these particular words ). 37. But in other times, other conventions rule : In a short story from the mid-' 30s, Agatha Christie chooses the nominative case . 38. :The only thing that bugs me is the lack of final-r's in the nominative case , but that is a matter of taste. 39. Tabled just below on the left are the paradigms for the major gender and number agreement termination ( GN ), nominative case . 40. The dative construction occurs when the semantic subject is in the dative case and semantic direct object is in the nominative case .
