femininenominative

Feminine nominative, or feminine nominative case, is the subject-marking form used for feminine gender in languages that have grammatical gender and explicit nominative morphology. In such languages, words may change shape to reflect gender, number, and case, and the nominative form is typically the form used for the subject of a sentence or clause. The feminine variant specifically marks feminine nouns, pronouns, and sometimes adjectives when they occur as subjects or focal predicates.

Morphology of the feminine nominative varies by language. Nouns may take a distinct feminine ending, articles or determiners may also inflect to indicate feminine gender, and adjectives preceding the noun often carry gendered endings that agree with the feminine noun. Pronouns have separate feminine nominative forms distinct from masculine or neuter.

Latin uses feminine nominative singular like femina as the subject, with adjectives agreeing in gender and number (femina pulchra). German marks feminine nominative with the article die or eine, and adjectives preceding the noun take specific endings (eine schöne Frau). Russian marks feminine nominative singular often with endings such as -a, as in женщина (zhenshchina), meaning woman, used as subject; the pronoun она (ona) is the feminine nominative form for "she."

English has limited case marking; the personal pronoun "she" is the feminine nominative form, while "her" is genitive/accusative. The concept varies significantly across languages, and some languages have little or no morphological distinction in the nominative across genders.