accusative

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Etymology

From French adjective accusatif, from Latin accusativus, from accusatus, perfect passive participle of accusare, + adjective suffix -ivus. See accuse.

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Adjective

accusative (not comparable)

1. Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame

   • This hath been a very accusative age — Sir E. Dering

2. (grammar) 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 has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.

Translations

producing accusations; accusatory

Dutch: beschuldigend (nl) Finnish: syyttävä (fi), syyttelevä (fi) Icelandic: ásakandi (is) m., f., and n.

Russian: обвинительный (ru) (obvinítel’nyj) Spanish: acusativo (es)

related to accusative case

Dutch: accusatief (nl) Esperanto: akuzativa (eo) Estonian: sihitav (et), akusatiiv (et) Finnish: akkusatiivi- (fi) Georgian: ბრალდებითი (ka) German: Akkusativ- (de), akkusativisch (de) Greek: αιτιατική (el) f. (aitiatikí) Hungarian: tárgyeset (hu)

Icelandic: þolfalls- (is) Polish: biernikowy (pl) Portuguese: acusativo (pt) Russian: винительный (ru) (vinítel’nyj) Spanish: acusativo (es) Swedish: ackusativ (sv) Turkish: belirtme (tr) (hâli/durumu), -i hâli (tr)

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Bulgarian: винителен (vinítelen) French: accusatif (fr) Hebrew: יחס הפעול (yakhas ha-pa’ul) Hungarian: tárgy (hu) Interlingua: accusative Italian: accusativo (it) Latin: accusativus Portuguese: acusativo (pt) Swedish: ackusativ (sv)

Noun

accusative (plural accusatives)

1. (grammar) The accusative case.

Translations

accusative case

Ancient Greek: αἰτιατική πτῶσις (aitiatikē ptōsis) Arabic: منصوب (ar) (manSuub) m. Armenian: հայցական (hy) (hayc’akan), հայցական հոլով (hy) (hayc'akan holov) Belarusian: вінавальны склон (vinaval’ny sklon) m. Bosnian: akuzativ (bs) m. Bulgarian: винителен падеж (vinítelen padéž) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 賓格 (cmn), 宾格 (cmn) (bīngé) Croatian: akuzativ (hr) m. Czech: čtvrtý pád (cs) m., akuzativ (cs) m. Danish: akkusativ (da) Dutch: accusatief m., vierde naamval m., lijdend voorwerp n. Esperanto: akuzativo (eo) Faroese: hvønnfall (fo) n. Finnish: akkusatiivi (fi) French: accusatif (fr) m. Georgian: ბრალდებითი ბრუნვა (ka) (braldebit'i brunva) German: Akkusativ (de) m., Wenfall (de) m. Greek: αιτιατική (el) f.

Hebrew: יחס הפעול (yakhas ha-pa’ul) m. Hungarian: tárgyeset (hu), akkuzatívusz (hu) Icelandic: þolfall (is) n. Interlingua: accusativo Italian: accusativo (it) m. Japanese: 対格 (ja) (たいかく, taikakú) Latin: casus accusativus m. Lithuanian: galininkas (lt) m. Novial: akusative Polish: biernik (pl) m. Portuguese: acusativo (pt) m. Romanian: acuzativ (ro) n., caz acuzativ (ro) n. Russian: винительный падеж (ru) (vinítel’nyj padéž) m. Serbian: акузатив (akuzativ) m. Slovene: tožilnik (sl) m. Spanish: acusativo m., caso acusativo m., complemento directo m. Swedish: ackusativ (sv) c. Vietnamese: đối cách Volapük: kimifal, kusatif (vo)

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French

Adjective

accusative f.

1. feminine of accusatif

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Latin

Noun

accūsātīve

1. vocative singular of accūsātīvus