• In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated ACC) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb. In the English...
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  • the perceiver, and the accusative pronouns me/them represent the phenomenon perceived. Here, nominative and accusative are cases, that is, categories of...
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  • cognate to the word Arab itself. Case is not shown in standard orthography, with the exception of indefinite accusative nouns ending in any letter but tā’...
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    transitive verbs in basic clause constructions. Nominative–accusative alignment can be coded by case-marking, verb agreement and/or word order. It has a wide...
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  • Russian. For example the distribution of accusative case: Accusative case assignment:: p.4  α assigns accusative case to β only if: iii. α is V or P (not N...
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  • nonexistence of an accusative case in Finnish thus depends on one's point of view. Historically, the similarity of the accusative and genitive endings...
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  • argument of a transitive verb with the accusative case, and the argument of an intransitive verb with an intransitive case. A tripartite language does not maintain...
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  • in any of its descendants. The dative, however, contrasts with the accusative case, which is used to indicate motion toward a place (it has an allative...
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  • "luen kirjaa" → "I'm reading a book" Compare with telic actions in accusative case: "luen kirjan" → "I will read the (entire) book" With atelic verbs...
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  • language had a dative case; however, the English case system gradually fell into disuse during the Middle English period, when the accusative and dative of pronouns...
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  • having, in the present tense, the direct case for S and A and the oblique case for O (a nominative–accusative alignment), and, in the past tense, the direct...
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  • direct objects. For definite direct objects, the definite accusative case is used. The dative case tells the place to which. Thus it has roughly the meaning...
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  • either a nominative or an accusative case; used with the article, it may be in any case (nominative, genitive, dative and accusative). (b) It shows morphological...
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    nominative case nouns converting into genitive case. It has been found, however, that the Kansai dialect of Japanese will in rare cases allow accusative case to...
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  • objective (or accusative) case, and so do verbs. In German, prepositions can govern the genitive, dative, or accusative, and none of these cases are exclusively...
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  • in German the preposition für 'for' governs the accusative case: für mich 'for me-accusative'. Case government may modify the meaning of the verb substantially...
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    place in the sentence. In Mongolian, the nominative case does not have an ending. The accusative case is used when a noun acts as a direct object (or just...
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  • grammatical case, of which there are 9: nominative case, accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, sociative case, locative case, ablative case, genitive...
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  • Arabic are declined according to the following properties: Case (nominative, genitive, and accusative) State (indefinite, definite or construct) Gender (masculine...
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  • There are eight cases in Malo[clarification needed]. Nominative Accusative Dative Genitive Instrumental Commutative Ablative Nominative case has <i> and <a>...
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  • into Ancient Greek in words such as Athḗnaze, from accusative Athḗnās + -de. The Latin accusative case is used for motion towards towns and small islands...
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    case) rēgem videt "(he) sees the king" (accusative case) Further cases mean "of" (genitive case), "to/for" (dative case), and "with" (ablative case)...
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    new pontiff's birth first name is announced in Latin, usually in the accusative case (e.g. Carolum, Iosephum, Georgium Marium), but the new pontiff's surname...
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  • the morphological case differentiation in nouns. Nevertheless, declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative...
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  • of the case and the actual suffix. In Latin, for example, the nominative case is lupus and the vocative case is lupe, but the accusative case is lupum...
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  • a subtype of, a nominative–accusative alignment. In a prototypical nominative–accusative language with a grammatical case system like Latin, the object...
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  • much like an accusative case. The use of the postposition asti (or synonymously saakka) with the illative (or allative or sublative) case in Finnish very...
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  • nominative-accusative languages, the case for the single argument of an intransitive verb and the agent of a transitive verb is the nominative, while the case for...
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  • form ku- in the accusative case and ∅- in the absolutive case. The transitive verbs which index their patient in the accusative case (in finite clauses)...
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    determiners; was inherited almost directly from the Latin nominative and accusative cases; and preserved a number of different declensional classes and irregular...
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