accusative case

grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb
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accusative case

Summary

accusative case is a case[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of case entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (605 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • accusative case's instance of is recorded as case[3].
  • accusative case is a type of grammatical form[4].
  • accusative case's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[5].
  • accusative case's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
  • accusative case's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • accusative case's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8].
  • accusative case's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9].
  • accusative case's has effect is recorded as direct object[10].
  • accusative case's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'ACC'}[11].
  • accusative case's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'вин.п.'}[12].
  • accusative case's different from is recorded as prepositional case[13].
  • accusative case's different from is recorded as object case[14].
  • accusative case's exact match is recorded as http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#accusativeCase[15].
  • accusative case's exact match is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/AccusativeCase[16].

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Definition and Type

accusative case's instance of is recorded as case[3]. It is a type of grammatical form[4].

Why It Matters

accusative case ranks in the top 5% of case entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (605 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . eva.mpg.de. Retrieved . eva.mpg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of case
    Aliases
    Different from prepositional case, object case
    Described by source Otto's encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +2
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