Definitions for accusative case
ac·cu·sa·tive case

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1. accusative, accusative case, objective casenoun

   the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb

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1. accusative casenoun

   case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence.

2. accusative casenoun

   : case used to mark the immediate object on which the transitive verb acts.

   Synonym: accusative

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1. Accusative case

   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 language, the only words that occur in the accusative case are pronouns: 'me,' 'him,' 'her,' 'us,' 'whom', and ‘them’. For example, the pronoun they, as the subject of a clause, is in the nominative case ("They wrote a book"); but if the pronoun is instead the object of the verb, it is in the accusative case and they becomes them (“Fred greeted them"). For compound direct objects, it would be, e.g., "Fred invited her and me to the party". The accusative case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions. It is usually combined with the nominative case (for example in Latin). The English term, "accusative", derives from the Latin accusativus, which, in turn, is a translation of the Greek αἰτιατική. The word can also mean "causative", and that might have derived from the Greeks, but the sense of the Roman translation has endured and is used in some other modern languages as the grammatical term for this case, for example in Russian (винительный). The accusative case is typical of early Indo-European languages and still exists in some of them (including Albanian, Armenian, Latin, Sanskrit, Greek, German, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian), in the Finno-Ugric languages (such as Finnish and Hungarian), in all Turkic languages, in Dravidan languages like Malayalam, and in Semitic languages (such as Arabic). Some Balto-Finnic languages, such as Finnish, have two cases for objects, the accusative and the partitive case. In morphosyntactic alignment terms, both do the accusative function, but the accusative object is telic, while the partitive is not. Modern English almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns; pronouns, however, have an understood case usage, as in them, her, him and whom, which merges the accusative and dative functions, and originates in old Germanic dative forms (see Declension in English).

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1. accusative case

   The accusative case is a grammatical term used in certain languages to indicate the direct object of a verb. This case shows who or what is receiving the action of the verb. In addition to taking the direct object role, in some languages, the accusative case can also indicate other functions, such as the object of a preposition, depending on the language's grammatical structure.

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1. Accusative case

   The accusative case of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of prepositions. It is a noun that is having something done to it, usually joined with the nominative case, making it an indirect object. The accusative case existed in Proto-Indo-European and is present in some Indo-European languages, in the Uralic languages, in Altaic languages, and in Semitic languages. Finnic languages, such as Finnish and Estonian, have two cases to mark objects, the accusative and the partitive case. In morphosyntactic alignment terms, both perform the accusative function, but the accusative object is telic, while the partitive is not. Modern English, which almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns, does not have an explicitly marked accusative case even in the pronouns. Such forms as whom, them, and her derive rather from the old Germanic dative forms, of which the -m and -r endings are characteristic. This conflation of the old accusative, dative, instrumental, and genitive cases is the oblique case. Most modern English grammarians no longer use the Latin accusative/dative model, though they tend to use the terms objective for oblique, subjective for nominative, and possessive for genitive. Hine, a true accusative masculine third person singular pronoun, is attested in some northern English dialects as late as the 19th century.

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1. • Oblique Case

How to pronounce accusative case?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say accusative case in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of accusative case in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of accusative case in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=accusative case
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Accusative_Case
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusative_Case
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=accusative case