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19-678: While the name of the river literally means "hunt" in Russian, it is the corruption of the Even word окат (okat) meaning "river". The Okhota begins in the Suntar-Khayata Range at about 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) above sea level at the junction of the Left Okhota and Right Okhota rivers. These are about 10 kilometres (6 mi) long and start from an elevation of 1,800 to 2,000 metres (5,900 to 6,600 ft). First it flows as

38-488: A nominative-accusative alignment with subject-object-verb word order . There exists an obligatory copula , but it can be omitted if a noun in the predicate is inflected for the third person. Nouns in Even are marked for 13 cases , including the nominative , accusative , dative , lative , two forms of the locative , prolative , three forms of the ablative , instrumental , and comitative . They are also inflected for

57-608: A mountain stream. Further downstream it flows to the west of the Kukhtuy and east of the Urak river. It heads southwards in a wide valley between the Yudoma and Kukhtuy Ranges until its mouth in the Sea of Okhotsk near Novoye Ustye, west of the port town of Okhotsk . The lower reaches of the river are navigable for small craft. The Okhota is frozen from early November to May. Snow cover in

76-414: A nominative case are nouns, adjectives, pronouns and (less frequently) numerals and participles. The nominative case often indicates the subject of a verb but sometimes does not indicate any particular relationship with the other parts of a sentence. In some languages, the nominative case is unmarked, and it may then be said to be marked by a null morpheme . Moreover, in most languages with a nominative case,

95-671: Is a Tungusic language spoken by the Evens in Siberia . It is spoken by widely scattered communities of reindeer herders from Kamchatka and the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the Lena river in the west and from the Arctic coast in the north to the Aldan river in the south. Even is an endangered language with only some 5,700 speakers (Russian census, 2010). These speakers are specifically from

114-510: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in the Russian Far East is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Even language The Even language / ə ˈ v ɛ n / ə- VEN , also known as Lamut , Ewen , Eben , Orich , Ilqan ( Russian : Эве́нский язы́к , romanized :  Evénsky yazýk , historically also Ламутский язы́к , Lamutsky yazýk ),

133-426: Is used for the subject of a transitive verb or a voluntary subject of an intransitive verb but not for an involuntary subject of an intransitive verb. Since such languages are a relatively new field of study, there is no standard name for this case. English is now often described as having a subjective case , instead of a nominative, to draw attention to the differences between the "standard" generic nominative and

152-829: The Magadan region, the Chukot region and the Koryak region. The dialects are Arman (transitional between Even and Evenki ), Indigirka, Kamchatka, Kolyma-Omolon, Okhotsk, Ola, Tompon, Upper Kolyma, Sakkyryr and Lamunkhin. In the regions where the Evens primarily reside, the Even language is generally taught in pre-school and elementary school alongside the national language, Russian . Where Even functioned primarily as an oral language for communication between reindeer herding brigades, textbooks began circulating throughout these educational institutions from around 1925 to 1995. The syntax of

171-466: The Yudoma over the 100-kilometre (62 mi) Okhotsk Portage to the Okhota about 100 kilometres north of its mouth. There was some pasture along the river but not enough to keep many Yakutsk pack-horses over winter. Larch was cut and floated down the river for shipbuilding. Around 1750 there were 37 peasant families and from 1735 a few Yakut cattlemen. This Khabarovsk Krai location article

190-421: The accusative (comparable to the oblique or disjunctive in some other languages): I (accusative me ), we (accusative us ), he (accusative him ), she (accusative her ), they (accusative them ) and who (accusative whom ). A usage that is archaic in most current English dialects is the singular second-person pronoun thou (accusative thee ). A special case is the word you : originally, ye

209-452: The oblique or "bent" cases. The reference form (more technically, the least marked ) of certain parts of speech is normally in the nominative case, but that is often not a complete specification of the reference form, as the number and the gender may need to be specified. Thus, the reference or least marked form of an adjective might be the nominative masculine singular. The parts of speech that are often declined and therefore may have

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228-714: The subject of a verb , or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective , as opposed to its object , or other verb arguments . Generally, the noun "that is doing something" is in the nominative, and the nominative is often the form listed in dictionaries. The English word nominative comes from Latin cāsus nominātīvus "case for naming", which was translated from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικὴ πτῶσις, onomastikḗ ptôsis "inflection for naming", from onomázō "call by name", from ónoma "name". Dionysius Thrax in his The Art of Grammar refers to it as orthḗ or eutheîa "straight", in contrast to

247-615: The Even language follows the nominative case and subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, with the attribute preceding the dependent member. In some remote Arctic villages, such as Russkoye Ustye , whose population descended from Russian-Even intermarriage, the language spoken into the 20th century was a dialect of Russian with a strong Even influence. [q] , and [ɣ] are allophones of /k/ and /g/ , respectively. Even parts of speech include postpositions , conjunction , particles , and adverbs , as well as nouns and verbs; nouns in Even can function as adjectives and adverbs. Even features

266-454: The history of Even writing: Modern Even alphabet Long vowels are indicated by a macron above the corresponding letter. This language-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nominative case In grammar , the nominative case ( abbreviated NOM ), subjective case , straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks

285-558: The nominative form is the lemma ; that is, it is the reference form used to cite a word, to list it as a dictionary entry etc. Nominative cases are found in Albanian , Arabic , Estonian , Sanskrit , Slovak , Ukrainian , Hungarian , Lithuanian , Georgian , German , Latin , Greek , Icelandic , Old English , Old French , Polish , Serbian , Czech , Romanian , Russian and Pashto , among other languages. English still retains some nominative pronouns , which are contrasted with

304-662: The singular or plural number and for possession, as well as for the subjective, which indicates that the subject noun has no object. Noun inflection is exclusively suffixing. Its pronouns are distinguished between personal, reflexive , and possessive forms, with a distinction between alienable and inalienable forms . Verbs can be conjugated with prefixes for 15 aspects and feature 6 distinctions in voice , with specific negative and interrogative forms. There are 14 ways to form participles , 8 being transgressives . At present, Even writing functions in Cyrillic. There are 3 stages in

323-569: The valley can last until late June. The banks of the river are mostly forested . There is an important salmon run . Salvelinus neiva is a char species found in the river basin. In the fur hunting trade, since there are no easy portages to the Okhota, the Russians usually approached Okhotsk from the Urak or the Ulya to the west. The only main route that used the Okhota ran from the "corner" of

342-463: The way that it is used in English. The term objective case is then used for the oblique case , which covers the roles of accusative, dative and objects of a preposition. The genitive case is then usually called the possessive form, rather than a noun case per se . English is then said to have two cases: the subjective and the objective. The nominative case marks the subject of a verb. When

361-404: Was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time, you has come to be used for the nominative as well. The term "nominative case" is most properly used in the discussion of nominative–accusative languages , such as Latin, Greek and most modern Western European languages. In active–stative languages , there is a case, sometimes called nominative, that is the most marked case and

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