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  2. Accusative and infinitive - Wikipedia

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    In English, the ACI construction occurs more so than other European languages, normally with verbs of wishing, saying and perceiving, as well as in causative clauses. Depending on the valency of the main verb in the sentence, English may use the infinitive with or without the infinitive marker to. I would like the President to be successful.

  3. Accusative case - Wikipedia

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    The English term, "accusative", derives from the Latin accusativus, which, in turn, is a translation of the Greek αἰτιατική. The word can also mean "causative", and that might have derived from the Greeks, [ 2 ] but the sense of the Roman translation has endured and is used in some other modern languages as the grammatical term for ...

  4. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    Corresponds to English's object pronouns and preposition for construction before the object, often marked by a definite article the. Together with dative, it forms modern English's oblique case. Dative: Indirect object of a verb us, to us, to the (object) The clerk gave us a discount. The clerk gave a discount to us. According to the law ...

  5. Dative case - Wikipedia

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    The Old English language had a dative case; however, the English case system gradually fell into disuse during the Middle English period, when the accusative and dative of pronouns merged into a single oblique case that was also used with all prepositions. This conflation of case in Middle and Modern English has led most modern grammarians to ...

  6. German adverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    A third group of prepositions, called two way prepositions, take either the accusative case or the dative case depending on the phrase's exact meaning. If the statement describes movement across a boundary then the phrase is accusative. Other situations, including movement within a confined area, take the dative case. For example: Ich schlafe ...

  7. German grammar - Wikipedia

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    The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages.Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation of some of the verb forms, resemble those of English, German grammar differs from that of English in that it has, among other things, cases and gender in nouns and a strict verb-second word order in main clauses.

  8. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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    ^† The case classically referred to as dative in Scottish Gaelic has shifted to, and is sometimes called, a prepositional case. Distributive case: distribution by piece: per house Chuvash | Hungarian | Manchu | Finnish [6] Distributive-temporal case: frequency: daily; on Sundays Hungarian; Finnish [6] Genitive case

  9. German verbs - Wikipedia

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    The only exceptions are verbs with two accusative objects. In older forms of German, one of these accusative objects was a dative object. [citation needed] This dative object is removed, whereas the real accusative object stays. Die Schüler die Vokabeln abfragen ("test the students on their vocab") NOT Die Schüler abgefragt werden