The accusative case (abbreviated acc) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.
The English term, “accusative”, derives from the Latin accusativus, which, in turn, is a translation of the Greek αἰτιατική. The word may also mean “causative”, and this may have been the Greeks’ intention in this name,[2] but the sense of the Roman translation has endured and is used in some other modern languages as the grammatical term for this case, for example in Russian (винительный).
