Accusative

Definitions

1. The accusative case.
2. A word inflected in the accusative case.

Equivalents

Examples

“65 mošu tat̰ ās nōit̮ darəγəm yat̰ . . ‘quickly it (tat̰) happened, it (was) not long till . . . — drūm avantəm airištəm: according to Bartholomae IF. 12. 146 the author of this part was led to use⟳ accusatives here (instead of nominatives) by the preceding sentence yezi ǰum frapayeni.”

Strasbourg

“There is some antecedent in old Latin; but as usual the influence⟳ is Greek too, for Greek prose and poetry freely use⟳ accusatives which are to some extent adverbial accusatives, or accusatives of respect⟳.”

“Romani distinguishes dative and accusative pronouns formally and some Romani dialects use⟳ accusatives in constructions in which other languages employ⟳ a dative.”

CEFR level