• 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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    In linguistic typology, nominative–accusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like...
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  • In grammar, accusative and infinitive (also Accusativus cum infinitivo or accusative plus infinitive, frequently abbreviated ACI or A+I) is the name for...
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  • The accusative absolute is a grammatical construction found in some languages. It is an absolute construction found in the accusative case. In ancient...
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  • yet it displays accusative alignment with certain pronouns. The ergative-absolutive alignment is in contrast to nominative–accusative alignment, which...
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  • Semi-prepositions. Internal object/cognate accusative structure The accusative of specification (al-tamyīz, ٱلتَّمْيِيزُ). The accusative of purpose (al-maf‘ūl li-ajlihi...
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  • represent the perceiver and the accusative pronouns me/them represent the phenomenon perceived. Here, nominative and accusative are cases, that is, categories...
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  • grammatical system of a language. This is in contrast with nominative-accusative and ergative-absolutive alignment languages, in which the argument of...
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  • represents a typical nominative–accusative system (accusative for short). The name derived from the nominative and accusative cases. Basque is an ergative–absolutive...
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  • with the accusative (comparable to the oblique or disjunctive in some other languages): I (accusative me), we (accusative us), he (accusative him), she...
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    genitive and accusative are easily distinguishable from each other, e.g., kuä'cǩǩmi "eagles' (genitive plural)" and kuä'cǩǩmid "eagles (accusative plural)"...
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  • In linguistics, a cognate object (or cognate accusative) is a verb's object that is etymologically related to the verb. More specifically, the verb is...
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  • sentence, their form changes to one of the five cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, or dative). The set of forms that a noun will take for each...
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  • modern English grammarians, where it supplanted Old English's dative and accusative. When the two terms are contrasted, they differ in the ability of a word...
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  • nouns, the nominative, vocative, and accusative cases are identical, and the nominative, vocative, and accusative plurals all end in -a. (Both of these...
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  • one. In the form bonum, the ending -um denotes masculine accusative singular, neuter accusative singular, or neuter nominative singular. Many Indo-European...
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  • accusative indicates telicity; that is, the object has been finalized or the intended action is done. Note that a morphologically distinct accusative...
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    the neuter plural (nominative or accusative) form of the adjective "melior, -or, -us". It may be used in the accusative and substantively (i.e., as a noun)...
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  • goes back to the Old English dative him (accusative was hine), and "her" goes back to the dative hire (accusative was hīe). These pronouns are not pure datives...
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  • An ambitransitive verb is a verb that is both intransitive and transitive.: 4  This verb may or may not require a direct object. English has many ambitransitive...
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    derive from the non-standard but attested Latin nominative/accusative neuter lacte or accusative masculine lactem. In Spanish the word became feminine, while...
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  • terms "accusative" and "dative", these are functions rather than morphological cases in Modern English. That is, the form whom may play accusative or dative...
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  • Slavic languages. Czech has seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative and instrumental, partly inherited from Proto-Indo-European...
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  • Nevertheless, declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative) from the original six or seven. Another...
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    retained distinct nominative and accusative forms. Third person pronouns also retained a distinction between accusative and dative forms, but that was gradually...
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    cardinal numbers are stressed on the ultima, even in the accusative, e.g. ሠለስቱ śalastú accusative ሠለስተ śalastá ("three") pronouns have rather unpredictable...
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  • the language). Nominal declension is subject to six cases – nominative, accusative, genitive, prepositional, dative, instrumental – in two numbers (singular...
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  • -antis) form the vocative by dropping the -s from the nominative. In the accusative singular, many proper and some common nouns, imparisyllabic, often take...
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  • singular, dual, and plural; and seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative. The vocative is largely replaced...
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    C. "Quranic Grammar – Cognate Accusatives". corpus.quran.com. Retrieved 28 May 2021. "Quranic Grammar – The Accusative of Purpose". corpus.quran.com....
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