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unusual facts about accusative case


Accusative case

in exclamations, such as me miseram, "wretched me" (spoken by Circe to Ulysses in Ovid's Remedium Amoris; note that this is feminine: the masculine form would be me miserum).


Case in tiers

For nominative–accusative alignment, the structural cases are assigned from left to right, with nominative case preceding accusative.

Viscount

The word viscount, known to be used in English since 1387, comes from Old French visconte (modern French: vicomte), itself from Medieval Latin vicecomitem, accusative of vicecomes, from Late Latin vice- "deputy" + Latin comes (originally "companion"; later Roman imperial courtier or trusted appointee, ultimately count).


see also

Mbula language

Its basic word order is subject–verb–object; it has a nominative–accusative case-marking strategy.