Cases and their meanings

(nouns)

Order of case names	Case names	Poem to remember the meaning of each case
Naughty	Nominative	Nom is the SUBJECT “he plays the game”*
Vicars	Vocative	Voc is WHEN CALLING somebody’s name
Always	Accusative	Acc is the OBJECT: the game being played*
Go	Genitive	Genitive OF as in pile OF cakes made
Downstairs	Dative	Dat TO or FOR: gifts TO you or FOR you
Awkwardly	Ablative	and Ab BY, WITH, FROM plus IN and ON too!

*Remember:

The subject is the person (or thing) carrying out the verb action.

The object is the person (or thing) receiving the verb action

e.g. : subject verb object

He plays the game