How To Use Accusative In A Sentence
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English is called a nominative-accusative language because both transitive and intransitive verbs take subjects.
Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN
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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
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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?
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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.
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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
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In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause.
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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
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The genitive, dative, and accusative are called oblique cases to distinguish them from the nominative and vocative.
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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.
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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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an accusative forefinger
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I suspect that if one wanted to say "A gift was given by Aranth to Uni," it would simply be translated as Fler turce Arnθ Unial where the "agentive" function is taken up by a combination of the nomino-accusative case and marked word order.
Ipa ama hen
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However, an enclitic accusative demonstrative may still precede or follow an unmarked object and this is probably the most direct indication that accusative nouns are simply unmarked in that case.
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna
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So long as the payoff phrase is not actually a subject (even though it's interpreted as the subject), the basic case rule would predict accusative case.
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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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Accusative; as, -- quadrāgintā annōs vīxit, _he lived forty years_; hīc locus passūs sescentōs aberat, _this place was six hundred paces away_; arborēs quīnquāgintā pedēs altae, _trees fifty feet high_; abhinc septem annōs, _seven years ago_.
New Latin Grammar
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An m or n might be represented by a macron above a preceding vowel (poet for poetam, the accusative form of Latin poeta, poet) Omitted letters might be indicated by a suspension sign: the APOSTROPHE in M'ton, short for Merton.
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But if lindwig is an accusative object of the verb flugon, laora refers to the Hebrews: ‘the survivors fled the shield-army of the hostile ones.’
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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So thank you, Mr. Callahan, for the lessons in the nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive cases.
Audrey Watters: Beyond Ratings: Teacher Evaluations Don't Tell The Whole Story
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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Even there however, I'd argue that it's functioning as an unmarked noun in the accusative case Rasna hilar "protecting Etruria".
Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna
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It is the Gaulish cognate of Latin rex, whose stem is/reg /, as we see in forms such as the accusative singular regem and the nominative plural reges.
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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.
A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
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[Greek: epi], with the accusative, meaning _towards_ a person, comes often in the _Iliad_; once in the Odyssey.
Homer and His Age
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[Footnote 1: «qua» is generally used instead of «quae» in the feminine nominative singular and in the neuter nominative and accusative plural.] «485. » «quīdam», _a certain one, a certain_
Latin for Beginners
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Next, luθcva is transparently a nomino-accusative plural because -cva pl. is an allomorph of the more typical form -χva following aspirate θ.
The Etruscan verb root slic- in TLE 131
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An incidental point: once we have accusative subjects, the third-person singular verb form comes in here comes me is just what we'd expect.
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For instance, Q. might choose to suggest we refer to qim and to qer posts using the nominative qe, the accusative qim and the genitive qer.
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Mention one example each of verbs followed by the nominative, the accusative, the genitive, the dative, the ablative.
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The word 'diabolic' itself derives from the Greek word diaballo meaning to "pass beyond" or "over", from the root dia - "through" and, as a causal accusative, "with the aid of".
The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #10
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I asked, dropping back into my chair after a trip to the bathroom, and immediately regretting the relative accusative pronoun.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
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In Latin, prepositions are indeclinable (they do not have endings); the object of a Latin preposition will be in either the ablative or the accusative case.
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How idiomatic the infinitive / accusative construction was, however, is a matter of some debate.
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( "To His Eminence the most worthy Lord Cardinal" -- Herr, of which Herrn is the accusative, meaning "Lord," or "Mister").
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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They often appear without the final nominative ‘s’, as if they had been heard in conversation only in their accusative form, although in their contexts in the book they do not always serve as direct objects.
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Nouns have no gender & end in o; the plural terminates in oj (pronounced oy) & the accusative, on (plural ojn).
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Accusative — Mein en gut en Freund, my good friend.
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In the sentence, 'I saw him today', the word 'him' is in the accusative.
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most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German
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Most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German.
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Unlike the Liber Linteus, where we find for example both postfixed accusative article -cn and -tn, we are supposed to believe that the Tabula Capuana shows a different grammatical pattern that has an odd bias towards the l-genitive of ta rather than ca.
Deictics on the Tabula Capuana
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In addition, accusative case on who does not typically survive when the word is shunted to the beginning of an interrogative or relative clause.
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The accusative has thus two forms: the definite (with accusative ending) and the indefinite (the same as the nominative).
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The Hebrew Christian scholar, Dr Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, supports this interpretation by pointing out that the word YHWH is preceded by the untranslated accusative particle et, which marks the object of the verb, in this case ‘gotten’.
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Caroline@336: The locative is a weird case that doesn't fit into the usual scheme of 5, and is always identical in form to the genitive or accusative anyway.
Making Light: Open thread 135
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One of the leading ideas of the analysis is that the structural accusative position has wide scope with respect to the agent relation expressed by the head of the voice phrase.
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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If you wished to say that something happened in Asia, it would not suffice to use the simple ablative, because that form would have the same pronunciation as the nominative or the accusative, Asia (m), but the preposition must be prefixed, _in Asia_.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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Gildersleeve and Lodge also point out that the Romans sometimes took the accusative of the Greek word to be the stem.
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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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I didn't know that before I got all accusative of it copying Being Erica ... do all English majors at one point study the phallic imagery in James Joyce's Ulysses?
Tweets For Today
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This is called the accusative ending; and the word to which it is attached is said to be in the "accusative case":
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
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However, when studying German I was taught some grammar: so I thus learned the difference between a past tense and a past participle, and the difference between the nominative and the accusative cases.
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Recall the fictional judge objecting to splitting in court, in one of the Rumpole stories; he used an accusative in a gerund object, even for a pronoun,
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This claims that ‘syllabus’ originally occurred as a misprint of a Greek accusative plural in a fifteenth century edition of Cicero.
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The word commendam is the accusative of the Low Latin noun commenda, "trust", or "custody", which is derived from the verb commendare (to give in trust).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Sometimes, even its indeclinable adjectives had their cases: nominative singular masculine wise and accusative feminine plural wise, etc.
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It should be a ditransitive verb, meaning that it takes two objects, one in the accusative and one in the genitive.
Archive 2008-03-01
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I think I shall express the accusative by a prefix!
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But given that it is the same in nominative and accusative cases, just like a noun, it is a little surprising that it‘s possessive is a special case, especially since its and it’s sound identical.
2007 September « Motivated Grammar
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[Footnote 418: Syn. that which belongeth to us (_ciò che ci è_,) _ci_, as I have before noted, signifying both "here" and "us," dative and accusative.]
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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So free-standing pronouns are accusative, even when they're interpreted as subjects: Who did that?
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative.
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These would include the nominative (for the subject of a sentence), the accusative (for its object) and the genitive (to indicate possession).
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Followed by accusative and infinitive (anqrwpouß einai).
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So in fact the accusative in the cartoon is not grammatical in Standard English as normally used.
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When they arrived in New York she confronted everybody whom she met with a stony stare, which was almost accusative and convictive of guilt, in spite of entire innocence on the part of the person stared at.
The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories
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They managed it, of course (otherwise they would have failed their exams), but at the expense of making them worry for the rest of their lives about other constructions where there was a choice between subjective and objective (also called nominative and accusative) pronouns.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Cells" is a kind of accusative of product: "make it cells" (G.K. 117 ii.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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Feminine contrasts with both masculine and neuter, not only in the nominative and accusative singular, but in the genitive and dative singular as well.
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Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
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The latter is the accusative singular of the Latin word for "mint".
Sunt Lacrimae Rerum, et Mentam Mortalia Tangunt
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accusative endings
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Or putting the adjectives in the genitive case, instead of the accusative, as in ‘I will take the chalice of salvation’?
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You misspelled the Latin accusative singular of the word "mind".
Sunt Lacrimae Rerum, et Mentam Mortalia Tangunt
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There are probably a lot of children who are being taught that who is the standard accusative form.
2009 October « Motivated Grammar
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The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
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Why do some verbs take the genitive, not the accusative?
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Wiseman's critical work on the Feuding Report is, in my view, a worthwhile example of an outsider doing precisely that, excepting his occasional lapses into an accusative mode.
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Such instances are common in Arabic and one finds many examples in which an accusative of state occurs from a governed noun in the genitive.
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Why do some verbs take the genitive, not the accusative?
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On both occasions he places the accusative pronoun between the subject and the verb, advancing the object from its natural position and juxtaposing it with the subject.
