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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...

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

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...

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...

nominative case nouns converting into genitive case. It has been found, however, that the Kansai dialect of Japanese will in rare cases allow accusative case to...

"luen kirjaa" → "I'm reading a book" Compare with telic actions in accusative case: "luen kirjan" → "I will read the (entire) book" With atelic verbs...

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’...

second-person pronoun thou (accusative thee). A special case is the word you: originally, ye was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time, you...

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...

Russian. For example the distribution of accusative case: Accusative case assignment:: p.4  α assigns accusative case to β only if: iii. α is V or P (not N...

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...

grammatical case, of which there are 9: nominative case, accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, sociative case, locative case, ablative case, genitive...

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

in German the preposition für 'for' governs the accusative case: für mich 'for me-accusative'. Case government may modify the meaning of the verb substantially...

place in the sentence. In Mongolian, the nominative case does not have an ending. The accusative case is used when a noun acts as a direct object (or just...

The accusative absolute is a grammatical construction found in some languages. It is an absolute construction found in the accusative case. In ancient...

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...

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...

semantically uninterpretable case (e.g., accusative), the uninterpretable case is eliminated; however, when a semantically interpretable case is added (e.g., instrumental)...

into Ancient Greek in words such as Athḗnaze, from accusative Athḗnās + -de. The Latin accusative case is used for motion towards towns and small islands...