accusative in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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I.accusative [Brit əˈkjuːzətɪv, Am əˈkjuzədɪv] LING N

II.accusative [Brit əˈkjuːzətɪv, Am əˈkjuzədɪv] LING ADJ

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in the accusative case
à l'accusatif

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in the accusative
à l'accusatif m
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They are called "unaccusative" because, although the subject has the semantic role of a patient, it is not assigned accusative case.
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However, the cases have completely different functions, and the form of the accusative has developed from "-(e)m".
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Prepositions take the dative or the accusative, but not the genitive, e.g. (formally) "despite the rain".
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This led to variants like "dagi" and "dage" (day, dative singular) and "tungon" and "tungun" (tongue, genitive, dative, accusative singular and nominative, dative, accusative plural).
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An accusative preposition "na" has been proposed and is widely recognized.
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However, the vocalization may be reconstructed as /-mi/ in the nominative (such as malkmi two kings) and /-mi/ for the genitive and accusative (e.g. malkmi).
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A majority of the world's languages have accusative alignment.
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Like in the first- and second-person pronouns, the accusative mostly normally the genitive, and the ending "-ih" in the dual forms is replaced with "-iju".
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In the plural, in the nominative/accusative case, the definite article is -ii for masculine nouns, and -le for neuter and feminine nouns.
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The case system distinguishes among nominative, accusative, genitive, comitative, instrumental and locative cases, but there are also a large number of nominal derivational affixes.
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