Case: case
In English, the Case feature is only used for some personal pronouns. Pronouns can be either in the direct or oblique case.
Nom: direct
Examples
The following pronouns are in the direct case:
- I, you, he, she, it, we, they
Acc: oblique
Examples
The following pronouns are in the oblique case:
- me, you, him, her, it, us, them, myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
Note that you and it can be either in the direct or oblique case. If they appear in subject
position, they are marked as Nom, while if they appear in object position or if they have a prepositional
case marker, they are marked as Acc.
Reflexive pronouns only have this feature if they are used in object position and not if they are used as intensive pronouns (PronType=Emp).
Gen: dependent genitive
This value is specified for dependent possessives like my, to contrast with independent possessive pronouns like mine (which receive no Case feature).
Poss=Yes is specified for both kinds of possessives.
Examples
The following are the main genitive case pronouns:
- my, your, his, her, its, our, their, whose
Note that her is ambiguous between the oblique case and the genitive case, and his is ambiguous between a dependent (Case=Gen) possessive and an independent possessive (no Case).
Case in other languages: [am] [apu] [arr] [bej] [bg] [cs] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [ga] [gn] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [ka] [kmr] [koi] [kpv] [ky] [mdf] [myu] [myv] [pcm] [ps] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [uz] [xcl]