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Personal Pronoun in the Accusative Case

For the Personal pronoun (first, second or third person references), the Accusative case deals with a person (or object) which is the recipient of an action:

For example, “they” in English is nominative; “them” is accusative. The sentence “They like them” shows the nominative case and accusative case working in conjunction using the same base word. The syntactic functions of the accusative consist of designating the immediate object of an action, the intended result, the goal of a motion, and the extent of an action.

In Romanian, the Accusative is made up of a preposition, and a pronoun (which changes for first and second from the nominative)

Prepositions

The accusative Case is used mostly with the prepositions:

  • Cu: With, By
  • La: To, At, On, With
  • Spre: To
  • Pentru: For
  • De la: From
  • Despre: About
  • De către: By

pronoun

The prepositions go before the accusative pronoun:

English Pronoun Personal Pronoun (nominative) Accusative Pronoun
me Eu mine
you Tu tine
him/her El / Ea el/ea
us Noi noi
you Voi voi
them Ei / Ele ei / ele

Questions Used with Accusative

To as whom is the object of something (to accuse someone), you add cine after the preposition, omitting the pronoun:

  • Spre cine? To whom

Pronouns in the Accusative Case

When dealing with a Pronoun (a word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase) in the Accusative case things change.

The pattern is:

  1. Subject (noun or pronoun)
  2. Pronoun phrase (in the form):
    1. Simple Form
    2. Verb (matching form)
    3. Emphasis (optional to add extra clarity/stress)

Pronoun phrases

Note: The Emphasis follows the same pattern as the Accusative Pronoun for the “Personal Pronoun in the Accusative Case” (above).

English Simple Form verb Emphasis
me verb pe mine
you Te verb pe tine
him/her Îl / O verb pe el/ea
us Ne verb pe noi
you verb pe voi
them Îl / Le verb pe ei / ele

Examples:

  • Te întreb: I ask you
  • Eu te întreb: I ask you
  • Eu te întreb pe tine: I ask you (I am asking you!)

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duolingo/accusative_pronouns.txt · Last modified: 2021/01/12 21:08 by 127.0.0.1