accusative case

Accusative case — The accusative case (abbreviated acc) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions. It is a noun that is having… …   Wikipedia

accusative case — noun case used to mark the immediate object (direct object) on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. I see the car. Syn: objective case …   Wiktionary

accusative (case) — Макаров: винительный (падеж) …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

accusative case — Общая лексика: прямое дополнение …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

accusative case — винительный падеж, аккузатив …   Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь

accusative — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French or Latin; Anglo French acusatif, from Latin accusativus, from accusatus, past participle of accusare Date: 15th century 1. of, relating to, or being the grammatical case that marks the… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

Accusative — Ac*cu sa*tive, a. [F. accusatif, L. accusativus (in sense 2), fr. accusare. See {Accuse}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. This hath been a very accusative age. Sir E. Dering. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Accusative — Ac*cu sa*tive, n. (Gram.) The accusative case. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Case grammar — is a system of linguistic analysis, focusing on the link between the valence of a verb and the grammatical context it requires, created by the American linguist Charles J. Fillmore in (1968), in the context of Transformational Grammar. This… …   Wikipedia

accusative — accusatively, adv. /euh kyooh zeuh tiv/, adj. 1. Gram. a. (in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, or Russian) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions. b.… …   Universalium