nominatyvas

Nominatyvas, also known as the nominative case, is the grammatical case used in many languages with noun and adjective inflection to mark the subject of a sentence or a predicative noun following a linking verb. It is often the dictionary form of a noun and serves as the base form when listing words in dictionaries. In languages with nominative–accusative alignment, the nominative is the form used for the subject of both intransitive and transitive verbs, while other cases express additional roles such as direct or indirect object, possession, or related functions.

In practice, the nominative marks who or what performs the action, and it can also host the subject of examples like predicate nouns (e.g., the man is a teacher) in languages with case-marking.

English lacks overt noun case, but pronouns preserve a nominal nominative set (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) used for subject position, while objects take forms like me, him, her, us, them. In languages with richer inflection—Russian, German, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian—the nominative occurs as a distinct morphological form that contrasts with other cases such as the accusative, genitive, dative, etc.