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accusative Saltos de línea: ac¦cusa|tive
Pronunciación: /əˈkjuːzətɪv/

Definición de accusative en inglés:


(In Latin, Greek, German, and some other languages) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives which expresses the object of an action or the goal of motion.
Oraciones de ejemplo
  • In ordinary English this is a function that goes with accusative case on a pronoun: if you knock on my door and I call out Who is it?
  • So long as the payoff phrase is not actually a subject (even though it's interpreted as the subject), the basic case rule would predict accusative case.


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1A word in the accusative case.
Oraciones de ejemplo
  • Recall the fictional judge objecting to splitting in court, in one of the Rumpole stories; he used an accusative in a gerund object, even for a pronoun,
  • Gildersleeve and Lodge also point out that the Romans sometimes took the accusative of the Greek word to be the stem.
1.1 (the accusative) The accusative case.
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Late Middle English: from Latin (casus) accusativus, literally 'relating to an accusation or (legal) case', translating Greek (ptōsis) aitiatikē '(the case) showing cause'.

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