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  2. 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

  3. Old High German declension - Wikipedia

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    It is also used with copulative verbs. The accusative case, which expresses the direct object of a verb. In English, except for a small number of words which display a distinct accusative case (e.g., who > whom, I > me, he > him), the accusative and nominative cases are identical. The genitive case, which expresses possession, measurement, or ...

  4. Proto-Germanic grammar - Wikipedia

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    Accusative *wulfą *wulfanz ... That survives most clearly in Dutch and German, where the auxiliary verb is placed second, but the remaining verbs are still placed at ...

  5. 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.

  6. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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    agent, experiencer; subject of a transitive or intransitive verb: he pushed the door and it opened nominative–accusative languages (including marked nominative languages) Nominative case (2) agent; voluntary experiencer: he pushed the door and it opened; she paused active languages: Objective case (1) direct or indirect object of verb

  7. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    Nominative–accusative (or simply accusative): The argument (subject) of an intransitive verb is in the same case as the agent (subject) of a transitive verb; this case is then called the nominative case, with the patient (direct object) of a transitive verb being in the accusative case.

  8. Accusative case - Wikipedia

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    Some German pronouns also change in the accusative case. The accusative case is also used after particular German prepositions. These include bis, durch, für, gegen, ohne, um, after which the accusative case is always used, and an, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor, zwischen which can govern either the accusative or the dative. The ...

  9. Morphosyntactic alignment - Wikipedia

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    Languages with nominative–accusative alignment can detransitivize transitive verbs by demoting the A argument and promoting the O to be an S (thus taking nominative case marking); it is called the passive voice. Most of the world's languages have accusative alignment. An uncommon subtype is called marked nominative. In such languages, the ...