vocativo
Spanish, noun/bokaˈtibo/
vocativo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “vocative” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Uno de los casos gramaticales para el sintagma nominal, donde generalmente se marca el interlocutor al que se…”.
What does vocativo mean in English?
adjective
- 1
vocative
noun
- 1
masculinevocative
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Uno de los casos gramaticales para el sintagma nominal, donde generalmente se marca el interlocutor al que se dirige la alocución.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vocativo
- vocativa feminine
- vocativos masculine plural
- vocativas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vocativo?
- /bokaˈtibo/
- [bo.kaˈt̪i.β̞o]
- [bokaˈt̪iβ̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vocativo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vocativo in Spanish?
vocativo appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).