Nominative
Kto? Čo? · Who? What?
The nominative names the subject: the person, thing, or idea doing the action.
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.
What this shows
- Peter číta knihu. Peter is reading a book. Peter is nominative because he performs the action.
- Mesto je veľké. The city is large. Mesto is nominative because it is the subject being described.
Try this next
- Collect three nouns in nominative from your own Slovak reading.
- Compare a masculine, feminine, and neuter noun in the nominative.
Reference
Jazykovedný ústav Ľudovíta Štúra SAV ↗Full attribution on References.