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Accusative   /əkjˈuzətɪv/   Listen
Accusative

adjective
1.
Containing or expressing accusation.  Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive.  "Black accusatory looks" , "Accusive shoes and telltale trousers" , "His accusing glare"
2.
Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes.  Synonym: objective.  "Accusative endings"






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"Accusative" Quotes from Famous Books



... secondly, no one has yet been able to lay down precise rules for the transposition of the accent in the various inflections of the same word, Of this latter peculiarity, let one illustration suffice. The word ruka (hand) has the accent on the last syllable, but in the accusative (ruku) the accent goes back to the first syllable. It must not, however, be assumed that in all words of this type a similar transposition takes place. The word beda (misfortune), for instance, as well as very many ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace



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