Nota accusativi

Nota accusativi is a grammatical term meaning "denoting accusative case". It is generally applied to linguistic indicators of the accusative case. An example is the use of the preposition a in Spanish to indicate an animate direct object (the "personal a"): "Jorge llama a María".

Hebrew

In Hebrew the preposition אֶת et used for definite nouns in the accusative. Those nouns might be indicated by use of the definite article (ה Ha "the"). To continue with the Hebrew example:

Ani ro'eh et ha-kelev. אני רואה את הכלב
I see the dog.

אני רואה את כלבי
I see my dog

אני רואה את דניאל
I see Daniel

On the other hand, "I see a dog" is simply "Ani ro'eh kelev." אני רואה כלב ^[1]

This example is obviously a specialized use of the nota accusativi, since Hebrew does not use the nota accusativi unless the noun in question is definite.

Japanesae

In Japanese, the particle "を" (pronounced "お" o) is the direct object marker and marks the recipient of an action.

Toki Pona

In Toki Pona, the word e is used to mark accusative.

Other languages

Nota accusativi also exists in Armenian, Greek and other languages.

In other languages, especially those that indicate case grammatically, there is usually a separate form (for each declension if declensions exist) to indicate the accusative case. The nota accusativi should not be confused with such case forms, as the term nota accusativi denotes a separate particle indicating the accusative case.

See also

• Accusative case

References