Accusative in a sentence

There is no obligatory accusative marker as in Esperanto, but the accusative may optionally be marked with either an accusative ending or an accusative preposition.

The personal pronouns and the personal interrogative pronoun kuka/ken have a special accusative form ending in -t which is used in place of both nominative-accusative and genitive-accusative.

The unmarked accusative/citation form may be called absolutive to clarify that the citation form is used for the accusative case role rather than for the nominative, as it is in most nominative–accusative languages.

Accusative The Latin accusative of towns and small islands is used for motion towards, Allen and Greenough, sect. 427 like the allative case.

Also, only the pronouns' accusative is different from the nominative and/or genetive: minut, the accusative form of minä, "I".

An unofficial but widely recognized accusative preposition na has become popular with some Esperantists on the internet and may be used in such situations, especially when there is no following noun (ties, accusative na ties).

For example, "him" goes back to the Old English dative him (accusative was hine), and "her" goes back to the dative hire (accusative was hīe).

Many languages show mixed accusative and ergative behaviour (for example: ergative morphology marking the verb arguments, on top of an accusative syntax).

Prepositions can take two cases for their object: the accusative ("apud puerum" (with the boy), with "puerum" being the accusative form of "puer", boy) and the ablative ("sine puero" (without the boy), "puero" being the ablative form of "puer", boy).

That is, they are plural if the nouns they modify are plural, and accusative if the nouns they modify are accusative.

This is because the 3rd strong masculine declension, to which it belongs, marks the nominative singular and nominative and accusative plural, but not the accusative singular, with inflectional ʀs.

According to the theory, the animate gender, which (unlike the inanimate) had an independent accusative form, later split into masculine and feminine, thus originating the three-way classification into masculine, feminine and neuter.

Accusative vs. partitive case opposition of the object used with transitive verbs creates a telicity contrast, just as in Finnish.

A complication in Finnic languages is that the accusative case -(e)n is homophonic to the genitive case.

A frequent use of the accusative is in place of al (to) to indicate the direction or goal of motion ( allative construction ).

Alternatively, the accusative may be used without a preposition: :ili iros la trian de majo.

Among children that do use the accusative, its usage may be regularized from adult usage, at least at young ages.

A predicative adjective does not take the accusative case suffix even when the noun it modifies does: :mi farbis la pordon ruĝan (I painted the red door) :mi farbis la pordon ruĝa (I painted the door red).

As in English, there are forms for nominative case ( subject pronouns ), oblique case ( object pronouns ), and genitive case ( possessive pronouns ); in addition, third-person pronouns distinguish accusative and dative.

A special case is the word you: Originally, ye was its nominative form and you the accusative, but over time you has come to be used for the nominative as well.