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:A form of a [[#noun|noun]] used to call to or address something or someone. In English, in "Hey you!", the word "you" is vocative. English does not usually distinguish vocative from non-vocative nouns, aside from the archaic particle "O" as in "{{w|O Canada}}". [[Toki Pona]] marks the vocative with {{tp|[[o]]}}. Contrast [[#imperative|imperative]], [[#indicative|indicative]], [[#optative|optative]].