accusative case

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation):A.,acc.,ACC

Noun

Examples
I seethe car. I heara bell. I watchtelevision. I playfootball. I readthe book. I hitthe ball.

accusativecase(pluralaccusative cases)

1. (grammar):In English and other modern languages, thecaseused to mark the immediateobject(direct object) on which thetransitive verbacts. In Latin grammar, the accusative case (cāsus accūsātīvus) includes functions derived from the Indo-Europeanaccusativeandlativecases; said Lative Case expresses concepts similar to those of the English prepositions"to"and"towards".

   Synonym:accusative

Translations

case used to mark the immediate object—seeaccusative

See also

• dative case
• objective case
• Thesaurus:grammatical case

Further reading

• accusative caseon Wikipedia.Wikipedia