Nominativ
Nominativ, or the nominative case, is a grammatical category used in many languages to mark the subject of a sentence. The term derives from Latin nominativus, meaning the naming or subject case. In languages with a case system, the nominative typically identifies the noun phrase that performs the action of the verb or stands as a predicate noun or adjective in equational clauses.
In languages with nominative–accusative alignment, the nominative marks the subject of both intransitive and transitive verbs,
In Russian, Latin, and many other inflected languages, nouns and pronouns take distinct nominative forms for
Some languages have little or no case marking, relying on syntax rather than morphology to indicate subject