Explore: Accusative Case

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

transitive verbs in basic clause constructions. Nominative–accusative alignment can be coded by case-marking, verb agreement and/or word order. It has a wide

the perceiver, and the accusative pronouns me/them represent the phenomenon perceived. Here, nominative and accusative are cases, that is, categories of

Russian. For example the distribution of accusative case: Accusative case assignment: α assigns accusative case to β only if: iii. α is V or P (not N or

language had a dative case; however, the English case system gradually fell into disuse during the Middle English period, when the accusative and dative of pronouns

argument of a transitive verb with the accusative case, and the argument of an intransitive verb with an intransitive case. A tripartite language does not maintain

in any of its descendants. The dative, however, contrasts with the accusative case, which is used to indicate motion toward a place (it has an allative

cognate to the word Arab itself. Case is not shown in standard orthography, with the exception of indefinite accusative nouns ending in any letter but tā’

objective (or accusative) case, and so do verbs. In German, prepositions can govern the genitive, dative, or accusative, and none of these cases are exclusively

nonexistence of an accusative case in Finnish thus depends on one's point of view. Historically, the similarity of the accusative and genitive endings