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Accusative   /əkjˈuzətɪv/   Listen
Accusative

adjective
1.
Containing or expressing accusation.  Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive.  "Black accusatory looks" , "Accusive shoes and telltale trousers" , "His accusing glare"
2.
Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes.  Synonym: objective.  "Accusative endings"





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"Accusative" Quotes from Famous Books



... are five cases in Old English: the nominative, the genitive, the dative, the accusative, and the instrumental.[1] Each of them, except the nominative, may be governed by prepositions. When used without prepositions, they have, in ...
— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith


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