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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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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ʾIʿrab (section Accusative case)
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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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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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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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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Tripartite alignment (redirect from Ergative–accusative language)
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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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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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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Mongolian language (section Accusative case)
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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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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Tamil grammar (section Accusative Case)
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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Melo language (section Accusative case)
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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Infinitive (Ancient Greek) (section Subject omitted and understood in an oblique case (genitive, dative or accusative))
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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Latin grammar (section Accusative)
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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Arabic nouns and adjectives (section Accusative case)
Arabic are declined according to the following properties: Case (nominative, genitive, and accusative) State (indefinite, definite or construct) Gender (masculine...
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Suffixaufnahme (redirect from Case stacking)
semantically uninterpretable case (e.g., accusative), the uninterpretable case is eliminated; however, when a semantically interpretable case is added (e.g., instrumental)...
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Turkish grammar (section Definite accusative case)
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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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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Kayapo language (section Accusative case)
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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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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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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Russian grammar (section Additional cases)
Russian also places the accusative case between the dative and the instrumental, and in the tables below, the accusative case appears between the nominative...
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person pronoun, singular number, accusative case sat – "to truth"; accusative case of sat "truth"; here accusative case shows the destination; becomes sad...
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Declension (redirect from Case suffix)
serves to indicate number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative), gender (e.g. masculine, feminine, or...
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Arebhashe dialect (section Accusative case)
case, is normally used. The nominative is unmarked in Arebhashe. The Accusative-Genitive and Instrumental-Ablative are homophonous pairs in Arebhashe...
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Ergative–absolutive alignment (redirect from Ergative vs. absolutive case)
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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