Oblique case

In grammar, an oblique or objective case is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative.
A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally appear in any role except as subject, for which the nominative case is used. The term objective case is generally preferred by modern English grammarians, where it supplanted Old English's dative and accusative.
When the two terms are contrasted, they differ in the ability of a word in the oblique case to function as a possessive attributive; whether English has an oblique rather than an objective case then depends on how "proper" or widespread one considers the dialects where such usage is employed.
An oblique case often contrasts with an unmarked case, as in English oblique him and them versus nominative he and they. However, the term oblique is also used for languages without a nominative case, such as ergative–absolutive languages; in the Northwest Caucasian languages, for example, the oblique-case marker serves to mark the ergative, dative, and applicative case roles, contrasting with the absolutive case, which is unmarked.

Hindustani

nouns, pronouns and postpositions decline for an oblique case which exclusively serves to mark the grammatical case roles using the case-marking postpositions. The oblique case has similarities with the vocative case in Hindustani. Some examples of the declension pattern are shown in the tables below:

Bulgarian

, an analytic Slavic language, also has an oblique case form for pronouns:
Dative role:

"Give that ball to me" дай тaзи топка на мен
English

An objective case is marked on the English personal pronouns and as such serves the role of the accusative and dative cases that other Indo-European languages employ. These forms are often called object pronouns. They serve a variety of grammatical functions which they would not in languages that differentiate the two. An example using first person singular objective pronoun me:

in an accusative role for a direct object :
in a dative role for an indirect object:
as the object of a preposition :
in copular deixis:
in existentials :
in a nominative role with predicate or verbal ellipsis:
in coordinated nominals:
as a disjunctive topic marker:

The pronoun me is not inflected differently in any of these uses; it is used for all grammatical relationships except the genitive case of possession and a non-disjunctive nominative case as the subject.

It may also be used as a comedic stylistic effect of blatant error :
French

Old French had a nominative case and an oblique case, called and respectively.
In Modern French, the two cases have mostly merged and the cas régime has survived as the sole form for the majority of nouns. For example, the word "conte ":

Old French:
*Nominative: li , li
*Oblique: le , les
Modern French:
* le , les

In some cases, both the cas sujet and cas régime of one noun have survived but produced two nouns in Modern French with different meanings. For example, today's means "friend" and means "companion", but in Old French these were different declensions of the same noun.

Kurdish

has an oblique for pronouns, objects, and for objects of izafe constructs.