How To Pronounce "Accusative"

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adjective
Grammar.

(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.

similar to such a case form in function or meaning.

Linguistics. pertaining to a type of language in which there is an accusative case or in which subjects of transitive verbs behave the same way as subjects of intransitive verbs.: Compare ergative (def. 2).

accusatory.

noun
an accusative case.

a word in an accusative case.

a form or construction of similar function.

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