In grammar, an oblique (abbreviated OBL; from Latin: casus obliquus) or objective case (abbr.
[2][3] 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 example using first person singular objective pronoun me: 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 (in standard English) and a non-disjunctive nominative case as the subject.
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 (count, earl)": 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.