The accusative case has a nasty habit of tripping people up when they start learning German, and undermining any real sense of progress. It's easy to understand why. Imagine you’re just starting out ...

Scholars believe concerning the infinitive with subject-accusative in Latin (1) that it originated in the type iube hunc abire, with the accusative as object of the verb and the infinitive a dative of ...

Certain prepositions need to be followed by the accusative case, and are known as the accusative prepositions: ...

Case theory deals with a special property that all noun phrases are assumed to have. If they lack this feature, the sentence which contains the phrase is rendered ungrammatical. It is a theory of the ...