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The category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
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accusative
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grammatical case whose primary function is to express destination or goal of motion, mid-15c., from Anglo-French accusatif , Old French acusatif , or directly from Latin (casus) accusativus "(case) of accusing," from accusatus , past participle of accusare ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame 2 (context grammar English) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate direct object ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the category of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb [syn: accusative case , objective case ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accusative \Ac*cu"sa*tive\, n. (Gram.) The accusative case.
Usage examples of accusative.
Doctor Brooks to watch Cole closely, and the younger man to fix Magruder with an accusative glare.
Tolkien appears to be telling us that the distinct accusative forms were abandoned altogether.
Quenya that had a distinct accusative, we would presumably see the acc. sing.
In Lesson Five, we very briefly touched on another form of the noun the accusative case, which is the form a noun assumes when it is the object of a verb.
Phonologically, the older accusatives finí and súlú could have produced Exilic Quenya fini and súlu, still remaining distinct from nominative finë, súlo but Tolkien appears to be telling us that the distinct accusative forms were abandoned altogether.
If people were classified grammatically, you'd be in the accusative case!
Why, it is just like being the past tense of the compound reflexive adverbial incandescent hypodermic irregular accusative Noun of Multitude.