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Accusative case   /əkjˈuzətɪv keɪs/   Listen
Accusative case

noun
1.
The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb.  Synonyms: accusative, objective case.






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"Accusative case" Quotes from Famous Books



... the criticisms in detail of various schemes—e.g. it is urged against Esperanto that its accent is monotonous; that its accusative case is unnecessary; that its principle of word-formation from roots is not strictly logical; that its vocabulary is too Romance; that its vocabulary is not Romance enough; and ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

... Tamil. Iquote from Dr. Caldwell's "Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages," 2d ed. p.423: "Professor Max Mller, noticing that the majority of Tamil infinitives terminate in ka, supposed this ka to be identical in origin with k, the dative-accusative case-sign of the Hindi, and concluded that the Dravidian infinitive was the accusative of a verbal noun. It is true that the Sanskrit infinitive and Latin supine in tum is correctly regarded as an accusative, and that our English infinitive to do, is ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller



Words linked to "Accusative case" :   oblique, accusative, oblique case, objective case



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