Guest guest Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 nominative, vocative cases? Could someone explain with simple examples? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 instrumental and genitive cases too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avinash Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 I wonder why you have put these questions in this forum. Are your questions related to English grammar? Or Sanskrit grammar? Or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guruvani Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 the question seems to be an academic question, as I have never seen the answer to this question in any of the Vaishnava shastras. maybe there is an academic in the house who can answer that? Where is Jagat when you need him? :popcorn: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rukmini-Devi dasi Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 They are all concerning grammar. Instrumental and genitive cases don't have much to do with English but if I remember correctly nominative, vocative cases are used pretty much in all languages. Sorry but school was way too many years ago for me to remember any of this so your best course of action is to go to your nearest language professor and get help there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rukmini-Devi dasi Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Quick question - what does this have to do with spiritual discussions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pankaja_Dasa Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Quick question - what does this have to do with spiritual discussions? Hare Krishna, Glad your Back. Dandavats. Hare is the vocative for Hara. Hara is the form of addressing the energy of the Lord. - To my humble understanding, means that it goes together, Hare Krishna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avinash Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 I was thinking of now replying because the original poster has not clarified why he put this question in Spiritual discussion forum. But Pankaj has given an example of vocative case, so I thought of replying. When we are talking to somebody directly, then whatever word or set of words we use to address that person is called as vocative. We may refer to that person using his name or title or anything else. All these are vocative. Vocative is separated from the rest of the sentence using comma or commas. Example: - In Gita, Lord Krsna and Arjuna use vocatives for each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2006 Report Share Posted November 10, 2006 Now the English are getting English grammar lessons from the Indians. What is this world coming to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avinash Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 I can answer what the original poster has asked. But, before I do that, like Rukmini Devi Dasi, I would like to know why he asked that in 'Spiritual Discussions' forum. I find that the original poster has not come back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Answer to ur question- check the right sidebar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurodeepta Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 accusative means filling guilty what ever you did wrong. And this wrong is upto you how you take-up things, or happening surrounded with in you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Extremely sorry for the belated response. As no one replied earlier, I didn't even check back. My apologies. These questions are relevant because without a sound understanding of basics, swadhyaya would be futile. Anyway, thanks for all those who responded. Genitive cases-rAmasya? sivasya? Would these qualify? dative: ramAya, sivAya? accusative: rAmam, sivam? Rest later...thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 What's wrong in that? America invented the car but the Japanese are teaching the rest of the world a thing or two about making great cars Now the English are getting English grammar lessons from the Indians.What is this world coming to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krishnadasa Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Accusative case: Lord Krishna held the govardhana hill Nomiantive case: Lord krishna is the supreme personality of godhead Dative case: He lives in the heart Fourth case: He lives in the heart of the devotees Hari hari bol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avinash Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 This thread should be in Sanskrit forum. Anyway ... Extremely sorry for the belated response. As no one replied earlier, I didn't even check back. My apologies. These questions are relevant because without a sound understanding of basics, swadhyaya would be futile. Anyway, thanks for all those who responded. We thought the questions were related to English grammar. Genitive cases-rAmasya? sivasya? Would these qualify? Genitive case indicates possession. So, you are right; rAmasay and sivasya are examples of genitive case. dative: ramAya, sivAya? Dative is used in the sense of 'for the sake of'. So, you are again right. Just make one small correction. It should be rAmAya and not ramAya i.e. longer a sound after r if you are talking about Lord Rama (pronounced rAma). But if you are talking about ramA (i.e. Laxmi), then ramAya is fine. (May be it was just a type.) accusative: rAmam, sivam? Again, correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drkpp Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 English Sanskrit case Vibhakti nominative prathamaa accusative dviteeyaa intrumental triteeyaa dative chturthee ablative panchamee genitive shashthee locative saptamee vocative sambodhana I hope this helps. By the Webmaster of: http://freetranslationblog.blogspot.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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