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Definition of Accusative
Accusative
Producing accusations; accusatory.
Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.
The accusative case.

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Accusative Translations

accusative in Dutch is accusatief, vierde naamval
accusative in German is Akkusativ {m}
accusative in Spanish is acusativo
accusative in Swedish is ackusativ

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