Editing Vocative case (section)

===Greek===
In [[Ancient Greek]], the vocative case is usually identical to the nominative case, with the exception of first-declension masculine nouns (ending in -ας or -ης), second-declension non-neuter nouns (ending in -ος) and third-declension non-neuter nouns.

In the first declension, masculines in -ᾱς have the vocative in -ᾱ (νεᾱνίᾱ); those in -της have -ᾰ (πολῖτα), all others in -ης have -η (Ἀτρείδη) except names of nations and compounds: Πέρσᾰ, Σκύθᾰ, γεω-μέτρᾰ, παιδο-τρίβᾰ. {{lang|grc|Δεσπότης}} has a recessive accent vocative {{lang|grc|δέσποτα}}. Second-declension masculine and feminine nouns have a regular vocative ending in -ε.  Third-declension nouns with one syllable ending in -ς have a vocative that is identical to the nominative ({{lang|grc|νύξ}}, night); otherwise, the stem (with necessary alterations, such as dropping final consonants) serves as the vocative (nom. {{lang|grc|πόλις}}, voc. {{lang|grc|πόλι}}; nom. {{lang|grc|σῶμα}}, gen. {{lang|grc|σώματος}}, voc. {{lang|grc|σῶμα}}).  Irregular vocatives exist as well, such as nom. Σωκράτης, voc. Σώκρατες.

In [[Modern Greek]], second-declension masculine nouns still have a vocative ending in -ε. However, the accusative case is often used as a vocative in informal speech for a limited number of nouns, and always used for certain modern Greek person names: "{{lang|el|Έλα εδώ, Χρήστο}}" "Come here, Christos" instead of "{{lang|el|...Χρήστε}}". Other nominal declensions use the same form in the vocative as the accusative in formal or informal speech, with the exception of learned ''[[Katharevousa]]'' forms that are inherited from Ancient Greek {{lang|el| Ἕλλην}} (Demotic {{lang|el|Έλληνας}}, "Greek man"), which have the same nominative and vocative forms instead.<ref>Holton, David, Irene Philippaki-Warburton, and Peter A. Mackridge, ''Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language'' (Routledge, London and New York:1997), pp. 49–50 {{ISBN|0415100011}}</ref>