(accusative)
11accusative — 1. adjective a) Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame , This hath been a very accusative age mdash; b) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses …
12accusative — ac•cu•sa•tive [[t]əˈkyu zə tɪv[/t]] adj. 1) gram. of or designating a grammatical case that indicates the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions 2) accusatory 3) gram. the accusative case 4) gram. a word or other form in… …
13accusative — /əˈkjuzətɪv/ (say uh kyoohzuhtiv) Grammar –adjective 1. denoting the case of a word which serves as the direct object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. –noun 2. the accusative case. 3. a word in the accusative case. Compare objective.… …
14accusative — ac|cu|sa|tive [əˈkju:zətıv] n technical a form of a noun in languages such as Latin or German, which shows that the noun is the ↑direct object of a verb or a ↑preposition >accusative adj …
15accusative — noun (C) technical a form of a noun in languages such as Latin or German, which shows that the noun is the direct object of a verb accusative adjective …
16accusative — UK [əˈkjuːzətɪv] / US [əˈkjuzətɪv] noun [singular] linguistics the form of a noun or pronoun that shows that it is the direct object of a verb Derived word: accusative UK / US adjective …
17accusative Grammar — [ə kju:zətɪv] adjective denoting a case which expresses the object of an action or the goal of motion. noun a word in the accusative case. Origin ME: from L. (casus) accusativus, translating Gk (ptōsis) aitiatikē (the case) showing cause …
18Accusative 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… …
19Accusative and infinitive — In grammar, accusative and infinitive is the name for a syntactic construction of Latin and Greek, also found in various forms in other languages such as English and Spanish. In this construction, the subject of a subordinate clause is put in the …
20Accusative absolute — The accusative absolute is a grammatical construction found in some languages. In ancient Greek, the accusative case is used adverbially with participles of impersonal verbs. It is similar in usage to the genitive absolute. [Balme, Maurice and… …
