Definitions for accusative

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accusative ac·cu·sa·tive

Spelling: [uh-kyoo-zuh-tiv]

IPA: /əˈkyu zə tɪv/

Accusative is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 400 anagrams from letters in accusative (aacceistuv).

Definitions for accusative

noun

1. an accusative case.
2. a word in an accusative case.
3. a form or construction of similar function.

adjective

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. accusatory.

Origin of accusative

1400-50; late Middle English (Middle French) Latin accūsātīvus, equivalent to ac- ac- + -cūsātīvus, combining form of causātīvus (see causativ

Examples for accusative

Moreover the only accusative of the participle and of the verb is khabarn.

The translator has here mistaken a Dative for an accusative.

I pray you have your remembrance (childe) accusative, king, hang, hog.

Nearly all French nouns and adjectives are derived from the accusative.

I expected to find you among your pillows,' said I, accusative.

It represents an accusative en or hen which still exists in Breton.

At present they are dative forms with an accusative meaning.

The man with whom the accusative persons are placed is called Sheriff.

In Anglo-Saxon the nominative (or accusative) ended in -an, with a single n.

The accusative, when not definite, may also be the same in form as the nominative.