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Overview

AKA The Personal Pronoun in the Accusative Case. Not to be confused with the dative, the Accusative case deals with an entity which is the recepient 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 Pronount (nominative) Pronoun Accusative
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

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