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accusative

[ UK /ɐkjˈuːzətˌɪv/ ]
[ US /əkˈjuzətɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
    accusative endings
    objective case
  2. containing or expressing accusation
    his accusing glare
    black accusatory looks
    accusive shoes and telltale trousers
    an accusative forefinger
NOUN
  1. the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb

How To Use accusative In A Sentence

  • English is called a nominative-accusative language because both transitive and intransitive verbs take subjects. Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN
  • Thus in Czech, liquids are treated as moraic and both syllables show normal sonority peaks headed by the most sonorant phoneme of the group (i.e. s PIE *ḱunós 'of the dog') can only be a declined noun based on its form (because of its zerograded root *kun-) and at this stage, no derivative of "dog" can start with *kun- in the nominative or accusative cases either. Pre-IE Syncope has an easter-egg surprise for you
  • In ordinary English this is a function that goes with accusative case on a pronoun: if you knock on my door and I call out Who is it?
  • Let's not forget that Spanish has inherited the following from Classical latin: "The rules tha regulates the verb in the regent clause and in the subordinate one in order to express anteriority, posteriority and contemporaneity; usually the subordinate clause go to subjunctive mood, and there are still present the infinitive clauses in spanish also the accusative dative. Languagehat.com: ITALIAN DIALECTS.
  • In fact, the use of an accusative as a kind of "terminative" isn't unusual at all crosslinguistically. Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna
  • In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause.
  • The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE. Archive 2009-11-01
  • The genitive, dative, and accusative are called oblique cases to distinguish them from the nominative and vocative.
  • Let's not forget that Spanish has inherited the following from Classical latin: "The rules tha regulates the verb in the regent clause and in the subordinate one in order to express anteriority, posteriority and contemporaneity; usually the subordinate clause go to subjunctive mood, and there are still present the infinitive clauses in spanish also the accusative dative. Languagehat.com: ITALIAN DIALECTS.
  • As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
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