Definition of Accusatives. Meaning of Accusatives. Synonyms of Accusatives

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Definition of Accusatives

Accusative
Accusative Ac*cu"sa*tive, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See Accuse.] 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. ``This hath been a very accusative age.' --Sir E. Dering. 2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.
Accusative
Accusative Ac*cu"sa*tive, n. (Gram.) The accusative case.

Meaning of Accusatives from wikipedia

- 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 accusative absolute is a grammatical construction found in some languages. It is an absolute construction found in the accusative case. In ancient...
- In linguistic typology, nominative–accusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment in which subjects of intransitive verbs are treated like...
- represent the perceiver, and the accusative pronouns me/them represent the phenomenon perceived. Here, nominative and accusative are cases, that is, categories...
- In grammar, accusative and infinitive (also Accusativus **** infinitivo or accusative plus infinitive, frequently abbreviated ACI or A+I) is the name for...
- 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...
- In linguistics, a cognate object (also known as a cognate accusative or an internal accusative) is a verb's object which is etymologically related to the...
- groups: those that are morphologically ergative but syntactically behave as accusative (for instance, Basque, Pashto and Urdu) and those that, on top of being...
- Slavic languages. Czech has seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, locative and instrumental, partly inherited from Proto-Indo-European...
- retained distinct nominative and accusative forms. Third person pronouns also retained a distinction between accusative and dative forms, but that was gradually...