Editing Accusative case (section)

== Latin ==
The accusative case in [[Latin]] has minor differences from the accusative case in [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]]. 
Nouns in the accusative case ({{lang|la|accusativus}}) can be used:
* as a [[object (grammar)|direct object]];
* to qualify duration of time, e.g., {{lang|la|multos annos}}, "for many years"; {{Lang|la|ducentos annos}}, "for 200 years"; this is known as the '''accusative of duration of time''',
* to qualify direction towards which e.g., {{lang|la|domum}}, "homewards"; {{lang|la|Romam}}, "to Rome" with no preposition needed; this is known as the '''accusative of place to which''', and is equivalent to the [[lative case]] found in some other languages.
* as the subject of an [[indirect statement]] with the verb as an infinitive, (e.g. {{lang|la|Dixit '''me''' esse saevum}}, "He said that '''I''' had been cruel"; in later Latin works, such as the [[Vulgate]], such a phrasing is replaced by {{Lang|la|quod}} and a regularly ordered sentence, having the subject in the nominative and the verb in the indicative mood, e.g., {{lang|la|Dixit quod '''ego''' fueram saevus}}).
* with case-specific prepositions such as {{lang|la|per}} (through), {{lang|la|ad}} (to/toward), and {{lang|la|trans}} (across);
* in exclamations, such as {{lang|la|me miseram}}, "wretched me" (spoken by [[Circe]] to [[Odysseus|Ulysses]] in [[Ovid]]'s {{lang|la|Remedium Amoris}});
*to qualify purpose, e.g., {{Lang|la|ad proficiscendum}}, "for the purpose of departing"; {{Lang|la|ad effēminandōs animōs}}, "for the purpose of weakening [or, effeminating] the spirit".

For the accusative endings, see [[Latin declension]]s.