Morphological case in nominative languages such as German or Latin. Noun phrases in the accusative case generally function syntactically as a direct object (Ger. Er liest ein Buch ‘He is reading a book’). The accusative case can also serve...

Valence change occurring in many languages in which an object in another case (dative, genitive) or a prepositional object alternates with an accusative or a direct object: Ger. Er kocht ihr/ für sie ‘He cooks for her’...

The accusative case (abbreviated ACC) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions. (Basically, it is a noun that is having...