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--- duolingo:accusative_pronouns [2018/08/07 19:45] – david
+++ duolingo:accusative_pronouns [2018/08/07 20:13] – david
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-====== Overview ======
+====== Personal Pronoun in the Accusative Case ======
-AKA The Personal Pronoun in the Accusative Case. Not to be confused with the dative, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusative_case|Accusative case]] deals with an entity which is the recepient of an action:
+For the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_pronoun|Personal pronoun]] (first, second or third person references), the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusative_case|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.
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 The prepositions go before the accusative pronoun:
-^  English Pronoun  ^  Personal Pronount (nominative) ^  Pronoun  Accusative  ^
+^  English Pronoun  ^  Personal Pronoun (nominative) ^  Accusative Pronoun  ^
-|  me               |  Eu                             |  **mine**             |
+|  me               |  Eu                            |  **mine**            |
-|  you              |  Tu                             |  **tine**             |
+|  you              |  Tu                            |  **tine**            |
-|  him/her          |  El / Ea                        |  el/ea                |
+|  him/her          |  El / Ea                       |  el/ea               |
-|  us               |  Noi                            |  noi                  |
+|  us               |  Noi                           |  noi                 |
-|  you              |  Voi                            |  voi                  |
+|  you              |  Voi                           |  voi                 |
-|  them             |  Ei / Ele                       |  ei / ele             |
+|  them             |  Ei / Ele                      |  ei / ele            |
 ===== Questions Used with Accusative =====
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   * **Spre cine?** To whom
+====== Pronouns in the Accusative Case ======
+When dealing with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun|Pronoun]] (a word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase) in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusative_case|Accusative case]] things change.
+The pattern is:
+  - Subject (noun or pronoun)
+  - Pronoun phrase (in the form):
+     - Simple Form
+     - Verb (matching form)
+     - 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        |  Mă          |        | **pe** **mine** |
+| you       |  Te          |        | **pe** **tine** |
+| him/her   |  Îl / O      |        | **pe** el/ea    |
+| us        |  Ne          |        | **pe** noi      |
+| you       |  Vă          |        | **pe** voi      |
+| them      |  Îl / Le     |        | **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!)
 ====== Notes from Duolingo: ======