accusative

English

Etymology

First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English accusative, borrowed from Anglo-Norman accusatif or Middle French acusatif or from Latin accūsātīvus (“having been blamed”), from accūsō (“to blame”). Akin to accuse. The Latin form is a mistranslation of the Ancient Greek grammatical term αἰτιᾱτική (aitiātikḗ, “expressing an effect”). This term actually comes from αἰτιᾱτός (aitiātós, “caused”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós, adjective suffix), but was reanalyzed as coming from αἰτιᾱ- (aitiā-), the stem of the verb αἰτιάομαι (aitiáomai, “to blame”), + -τῐκός (-tikós, verbal adjective suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈkjuːzətɪv/
• (US) enPR: əkū'zətĭv, IPA^(key): /əˈkjuzətɪv/
• Hyphenation: ac‧cusa‧tive

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Adjective

accusative (comparative more accusative, superlative most accusative)

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

   Synonyms: accusatory, accusatorial

   • Sir E. Dering

     This hath been a very accusative age.

2. (grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian 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

• Armenian: մեղադրական (hy) (meġadrakan)
• Catalan: acusatiu (ca)
• Dutch: beschuldigend (nl)
• Finnish: syyttävä (fi), syyttelevä
• Hungarian: vádaskodó
• Icelandic: ásakandi (is)
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• Japanese: 非難を表す (hinan wo arawasu)
• Portuguese: acusativo (pt), acusatório
• Romanian: acuzator (ro), acuzativ (ro)
• Russian: обвини́тельный (ru) (obvinítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: acusativo (es)
• Turkish: suçlayıcı
• Welsh: cyhuddgar, cyhuddol

related to accusative case

• Armenian: հայցական (hy) (haycʻakan)
• Catalan: acusatiu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宾格 (zh) (bīngé), 第四格

• Dutch: accusatief (nl)
• Esperanto: akuzativa
• Estonian: sihitav, akusatiiv
• Finnish: akkusatiivi- (fi)
• French: accusatif (fr)
• Georgian: ბრალდებითი (braldebiti)
• German: Akkusativ- (de), akkusativisch
• Greek: αιτιατική (el) f (aitiatikí)

  Ancient: αἰτιατική (aitiatikḗ)

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• Hungarian: tárgyesetben lévő/álló
• Icelandic: þolfalls- (is)
• Interlingue:
• Japanese: 対格の
• Latin: accūsātīvus
• Latvian: akuzatīvs (lv) m
• Old English: wrēġendlīċ
• Polish: biernikowy (pl)
• Portuguese: acusativo (pt)
• Russian: вини́тельный (ru) (vinítelʹnyj)
• Slovene: tožilniški
• Spanish: acusativo (es)
• Swedish: ackusativ (sv)
• Turkish: belirtme (tr) (hâli/durumu), -i hâli (tr)
• Welsh: gwrthrychol (cy)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} винителен (vinitelen)
• French: ^{(please verify)} accusatif (fr)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} יחס הפעול (yakhas ha-pa’ul)
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• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} accusative
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} accusativo (it)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} ackusativ (sv)

Noun

accusative (plural accusatives)

1. (grammar) The accusative case.

Synonyms

• (accusative case): acc., A.

Translations

accusative case

• Albanian: kallëzore (sq) f
• Arabic: مَنْصُوب m (manṣūb)
• Armenian: հայցական (hy) (haycʻakan), հայցական հոլով (hy) (haycʻakan holov)
• Asturian: acusativu m
• Belarusian: вінава́льны склон m (vinaválʹny sklon), вінава́льны m (vinaválʹny)
• Bulgarian: винителен падеж m (vinitelen padež)
• Catalan: acusatiu (ca) m, cas acusatiu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賓格／宾格 (zh) (bīngé), 宾格 (zh) (bīngé)

• Czech: čtvrtý pád m, akuzativ (cs) m
• Danish: akkusativ (da)
• Dutch: accusatief (nl) m, vierde naamval m
• Esperanto: akuzativo (eo)
• Faroese: hvønnfall (fo) n
• Finnish: akkusatiivi (fi), kohdanto (fi)
• French: accusatif (fr) m, cas accusatif m
• Georgian: ბრალდებითი ბრუნვა (braldebiti brunva), აკუზატივი (aḳuzaṭivi)
• German: Akkusativ (de) m, Wenfall (de) m, vierter Fall m
• Greek: αιτιατική (el) f (aitiatikí)

  Ancient: αἰτιατική f (aitiatikḗ)

• Hebrew: יחס הפעול m (yakhas ha-pa’ul)
• Hindi: द्वितीया विभक्ति f (dvitīyā vibhakti)
• Hungarian: tárgyeset (hu), accusativus
• Icelandic: þolfall (is) n
• Ingrian: akkuzatiivi
• Interlingua: accusativo
• Interlingue:
• Italian: accusativo (it) m
• Japanese: 対格 (ja) (たいかく, taikaku)
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• Kashubian: winowôcz (csb) m, akùzatiw (csb) m
• Korean: 대격 (ko) (daegyeok)
• Latin: casus accusativus m, incūsātīvus
• Lithuanian: galininkas (lt) m
• Mongolian: заах (mn) (zaax)
• Northern Sami: akkusatiiva
• Novial:
• Old English: wregendlic casus
• Polish: biernik (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: acusativo (pt) m
• Romanian: acuzativ (ro) n, caz acuzativ n
• Russian: вини́тельный паде́ж (ru) m (vinítelʹnyj padéž)
• Rusyn: акузатів m (akuzativ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: акузатив m

  Roman: akuzativ (sh) m

• Slovak: akuzatív (sk) m, štvrtý pád m
• Slovene: tožilnik (sl) m
• Spanish: acusativo (es) m, caso acusativo m
• Swedish: ackusativ (sv) c
• Tamil: இரண்டாம் வேற்றுமை (ta) (iraṇṭām vēṟṟumai)
• Telugu: ద్వితీయా విభక్తి (te) (dvitīyā vibhakti)
• Thai: กรรมการก (th) (gam-má-gaa-rók)
• Ukrainian: знахі́дний відмі́нок m (znaxídnyj vidmínok), знахі́дний (uk) m (znaxídnyj)
• Uyghur: چۈشۈم كېلىش (chüshüm këlish)
• Vietnamese: đối cách
• Volapük: kimifal, kusatif (vo)
• Welsh: gwrthrychol (cy) m
• West Frisian: hwaenfal, 4e fal, akkusatyf (fy)

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French

Adjective

accusative

1. feminine singular of accusatif

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) accūsātīve

1. vocative singular of accūsātīvus