Editing Vocative case (section)

==Arabic==
{{Wiktionary|يا}}
Properly speaking, [[Arabic language|Arabic]] has only three cases: [[nominative]], [[accusative]] and [[genitive]]. However, a meaning similar to that conveyed by the vocative case in other languages is indicated by the use of the particle ''yā'' ({{langx|ar|يا}}) placed before a noun inflected in the [[nominative]] case (or [[accusative]] if the noun is in construct form). In English translations, it is often translated literally as ''O'' instead of being omitted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/mjiyad/Arabic%20Grammar%20Book.doc |title=A Hundred and One Rules! A Short Reference to Arabic Syntactic, Morphological & Phonological Rules for Novice & Intermediate Levels of Proficiency |access-date=2007-11-28|first=Mohammed|last=Jiyad|format=DOC |work=Welcome to Arabic}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.madinaharabic.com/Arabic_Language_Course/Lessons/L005_007.html |title=Lesson 5 |access-date=2007-11-28|work=Madinah Arabic}}</ref> A longer form used in [[Classical Arabic]] is {{lang|ar|أيّها}} ''{{Transliteration|ar|ALA|ayyuhā}}'' (masculine), {{lang|ar|أيّتها}} ''{{Transliteration|ar|ALA|ayyatuhā}}'' (feminine), sometimes combined with ''yā''. The particle ''yā'' was also used in the old [[Castilian Spanish|Castilian language]] because of Arabic influence via [[Mozarabs|Mozarabic]] immigrations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Álvarez Blanco |first=Aquilino |date=2019 |title=EL ÁRABE YA¯ (یا) Y SU USO EN CASTELLANO MEDIEVAL. PROBLEMAS DE INTERPRETACIÓN Y TRADUCCIÓN |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10662/10015 |journal=Anuario de Estudios Filológicos |volume=XLII |pages=5–22 |via=Dehesa. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Extremadura}}</ref>