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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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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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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groups: those that are morphologically ergative but syntactically behave as accusative (for instance, Basque, Pashto and Urdu) and those that, on top of being...
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Tripartite alignment (redirect from Ergative–accusative language)
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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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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neuter nouns, the nominative, vocative, and accusative cases are identical. The nominative, vocative, and accusative plural almost always ends in -a. (Both...
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Cognate object (redirect from Cognate accusative)
In linguistics, a cognate object (also known as a cognate accusative or an internal accusative) is a verb's object that is etymologically related to the...
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Ancient Greek nouns (section Accusative)
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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Morphosyntactic alignment (section Comparison between ergative-absolutive and nominative-accusative)
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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ʾIʿrab (section Accusative case)
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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Oblique case (redirect from Dative/Accusative)
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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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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Ambitransitive verb (redirect from Accusative verb)
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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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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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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nominativ) Genitive (rodilnik or genitiv) Dative (dajalnik or dativ) Accusative (tožilnik or akuzativ) Locative (mestnik or lokativ) Instrumental (orodnik...
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Finnish noun cases (section Accusative)
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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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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the language). Nominal declension is subject to six cases – nominative, accusative, genitive, prepositional, dative, instrumental – in two numbers (singular...
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accusative case in morphologically overt case-marked languages such as Latin and Russian. For example the distribution of accusative case: Accusative...
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consistently used the accusative case in her own speech. Slovak has an accusative case on nouns, French does not. Other children used the accusative in only some...
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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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Slavic languages. Czech has seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative and instrumental, partly inherited from Proto-Indo-European...
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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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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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either a nominative or an accusative case; used with the article, it may be in any case (nominative, genitive, dative and accusative). (b) It shows morphological...
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Romanian grammar (section Accusative case)
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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