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Nominative

Kto? Čo? · Who? What?

The nominative names the subject: the person, thing, or idea doing the action.

What it does

Role in a sentence

Use nominative for the subject of a sentence. It answers who or what performs the action.

In Peter číta knihu, Peter is nominative because Peter performs the reading. The object knihu uses a different case.

Annotated examples

What this shows

  1. Peter číta knihu. Peter is reading a book. Peter is nominative because he performs the action.
  2. Mesto je veľké. The city is large. Mesto is nominative because it is the subject being described.

Practice prompts

Try this next

  • Collect three nouns in nominative from your own Slovak reading.
  • Compare a masculine, feminine, and neuter noun in the nominative.

Source

Reference

Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra SAV ↗

Full attribution on References.