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单词 accusative
释义

Definition of accusative in English:

accusative

adjective əˈkjuːzətɪvəˈkjuzədɪv
Grammar
  • (in Latin, Greek, German, and some other languages) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives which expresses the object of an action or the goal of motion.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So long as the payoff phrase is not actually a subject (even though it's interpreted as the subject), the basic case rule would predict accusative case.
    • The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
    • How idiomatic the infinitive / accusative construction was, however, is a matter of some debate.
    • An m or n might be represented by a macron above a preceding vowel (poet for poetam, the accusative form of Latin poeta, poet) Omitted letters might be indicated by a suspension sign: the APOSTROPHE in M'ton, short for Merton.
    • But if lindwig is an accusative object of the verb flugon, laora refers to the Hebrews: ‘the survivors fled the shield-army of the hostile ones.’
    • The accusative has thus two forms: the definite (with accusative ending) and the indefinite (the same as the nominative).
    • They often appear without the final nominative ‘s’, as if they had been heard in conversation only in their accusative form, although in their contexts in the book they do not always serve as direct objects.
    • It is the Gaulish cognate of Latin rex, whose stem is/reg /, as we see in forms such as the accusative singular regem and the nominative plural reges.
    • The Hebrew Christian scholar, Dr Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, supports this interpretation by pointing out that the word YHWH is preceded by the untranslated accusative particle et, which marks the object of the verb, in this case ‘gotten’.
    • In ordinary English this is a function that goes with accusative case on a pronoun: if you knock on my door and I call out Who is it?
    • This claims that ‘syllabus’ originally occurred as a misprint of a Greek accusative plural in a fifteenth century edition of Cicero.
    • So free-standing pronouns are accusative, even when they're interpreted as subjects: Who did that?
    • However, when studying German I was taught some grammar: so I thus learned the difference between a past tense and a past participle, and the difference between the nominative and the accusative cases.
    • One of the leading ideas of the analysis is that the structural accusative position has wide scope with respect to the agent relation expressed by the head of the voice phrase.
    • On both occasions he places the accusative pronoun between the subject and the verb, advancing the object from its natural position and juxtaposing it with the subject.
noun əˈkjuːzətɪvəˈkjuzədɪv
Grammar
  • 1A word in the accusative case.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Recall the fictional judge objecting to splitting in court, in one of the Rumpole stories; he used an accusative in a gerund object, even for a pronoun,
    • Nouns have no gender & end in o; the plural terminates in oj (pronounced oy) & the accusative, on (plural ojn).
    • Followed by accusative and infinitive (anqrwpouß einai).
    • I think I shall express the accusative by a prefix!
    • These would include the nominative (for the subject of a sentence), the accusative (for its object) and the genitive (to indicate possession).
    • For instance, Q. might choose to suggest we refer to qim and to qer posts using the nominative qe, the accusative qim and the genitive qer.
    • So in fact the accusative in the cartoon is not grammatical in Standard English as normally used.
    • Gildersleeve and Lodge also point out that the Romans sometimes took the accusative of the Greek word to be the stem.
    1. 1.1the accusative The accusative case.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
      • Why do some verbs take the genitive, not the accusative?
      • Or putting the adjectives in the genitive case, instead of the accusative, as in ‘I will take the chalice of salvation’?
      • The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
      • Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin (casus) accusativus, literally 'relating to an accusation or (legal) case', translating Greek (ptōsis) aitiatikē '(the case) showing cause'.

 
 

Definition of accusative in US English:

accusative

adjectiveəˈkyo͞ozədivəˈkjuzədɪv
Grammar
  • Relating to or denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives that expresses the object of an action or the goal of motion.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • How idiomatic the infinitive / accusative construction was, however, is a matter of some debate.
    • They often appear without the final nominative ‘s’, as if they had been heard in conversation only in their accusative form, although in their contexts in the book they do not always serve as direct objects.
    • The Hebrew Christian scholar, Dr Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, supports this interpretation by pointing out that the word YHWH is preceded by the untranslated accusative particle et, which marks the object of the verb, in this case ‘gotten’.
    • On both occasions he places the accusative pronoun between the subject and the verb, advancing the object from its natural position and juxtaposing it with the subject.
    • So long as the payoff phrase is not actually a subject (even though it's interpreted as the subject), the basic case rule would predict accusative case.
    • But if lindwig is an accusative object of the verb flugon, laora refers to the Hebrews: ‘the survivors fled the shield-army of the hostile ones.’
    • In ordinary English this is a function that goes with accusative case on a pronoun: if you knock on my door and I call out Who is it?
    • One of the leading ideas of the analysis is that the structural accusative position has wide scope with respect to the agent relation expressed by the head of the voice phrase.
    • It is the Gaulish cognate of Latin rex, whose stem is/reg /, as we see in forms such as the accusative singular regem and the nominative plural reges.
    • The accusative has thus two forms: the definite (with accusative ending) and the indefinite (the same as the nominative).
    • So free-standing pronouns are accusative, even when they're interpreted as subjects: Who did that?
    • An m or n might be represented by a macron above a preceding vowel (poet for poetam, the accusative form of Latin poeta, poet) Omitted letters might be indicated by a suspension sign: the APOSTROPHE in M'ton, short for Merton.
    • However, when studying German I was taught some grammar: so I thus learned the difference between a past tense and a past participle, and the difference between the nominative and the accusative cases.
    • This claims that ‘syllabus’ originally occurred as a misprint of a Greek accusative plural in a fifteenth century edition of Cicero.
    • The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.
nounəˈkyo͞ozədivəˈkjuzədɪv
Grammar
  • 1A word in the accusative case.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For instance, Q. might choose to suggest we refer to qim and to qer posts using the nominative qe, the accusative qim and the genitive qer.
    • Recall the fictional judge objecting to splitting in court, in one of the Rumpole stories; he used an accusative in a gerund object, even for a pronoun,
    • So in fact the accusative in the cartoon is not grammatical in Standard English as normally used.
    • Gildersleeve and Lodge also point out that the Romans sometimes took the accusative of the Greek word to be the stem.
    • These would include the nominative (for the subject of a sentence), the accusative (for its object) and the genitive (to indicate possession).
    • I think I shall express the accusative by a prefix!
    • Followed by accusative and infinitive (anqrwpouß einai).
    • Nouns have no gender & end in o; the plural terminates in oj (pronounced oy) & the accusative, on (plural ojn).
    1. 1.1the accusative The accusative case.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The nominal system distinguishes five cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative; the genitive and dative endings are always the same.
      • As students of the language may recall, German has four cases - nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative - which see words change in order to explain their relationship to each other.
      • Why do some verbs take the genitive, not the accusative?
      • Or putting the adjectives in the genitive case, instead of the accusative, as in ‘I will take the chalice of salvation’?
      • Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin ( casus) accusativus, literally ‘relating to an accusation or (legal) case’, translating Greek (ptōsis) aitiatikē ‘(the case) showing cause’.

 
 
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