accusative case
In English and other modern languages, the case used to mark the immediate object on…In English and other modern languages, the case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the transitive verb acts. In Latin grammar, the accusative case (cāsus accūsātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-European accusative and lative cases; said Lative Case expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "to" and "towards".
» In English there are only three cases, nominative, genitive, and objective, or accusative case.
Meaning
1 sensesIn English and other modern languages, the case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the transitive verb acts. In Latin grammar, the accusative case (cāsus accūsātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-European accusative and lative cases; said Lative Case expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions "to" and "towards".
- the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
Examples
3 sentencesIn English there are only three cases, nominative, genitive, and objective, or accusative case.
Tired of being the subject of accusations from Tom, Mary fled to France, whose language has no accusative case.
deGenervt davon, Gegenstand von Toms Anschuldigungen zu sein, flüchtete Mary sich nach Frankreich, dessen Sprache keinen Akkusativ kennt.
In Esperanto, the accusative case is marked with the ending -n.
Forms
plural: accusative casesSynonyms
2 synonyms- the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb:accusativeobjective case