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Definition of Accusative case

1. Noun. The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb.

Definition of Accusative case

1. Noun. (grammar): case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Accusative Case

Literary usage of Accusative case

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"... accusative case 386. The Accusative originally served to connect the noun more or less loosely with the verb-idea, whether expressed by a verb proper or ..."

2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"The Turkish i is doubtless a softened form of the Oriental Turkish accusative case-sign nl, from which it has been derived by the same process by which the ..."

3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1888)
"The accusative case. A. The accusative case, as governed by transitive ... a transitive verb, and makes the accusative case follow it : ho sware his Codes, ..."

4. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1913)
"The accusative case. J^ Signification of the accusative case. § 197. The relation of the accusative to its governing ^S verb is analogous to that of the ..."

5. A Study in Case Rivalry: Being an Investigation Regarding the Use of the by Clinton Leroy Babcock (1901)
"Neuter pronouns occur after memini 60 times ; 55 times the accusative case is used. The others are obsecro, eius {temporis) ut memineris, Terence, ..."

6. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"On pushing the comparison amongst the Scythian tongues, not a few of their accusative case-signs are found to resemble the Tamil accusative. ..."

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