Editing Manchu language (section)

=====Accusative=====
(''be''): one of the principal syntactic cases, it indicates participants/direct object of a sentence. It is written separate from the word that it follows.<ref name=":2" />

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|i boo '''be''' weile-mbi
|he house ACC build-IMPERF
|"He builds a house"}}

Certain Manchu verbs govern the accusative in spite of the fact that verbs with similar semantics in other languages do not take a direct object:
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|amba-sa saisa doro '''be''' kice-mbi, jemengge '''be''' kice-rakū
|high.official(amban)-PL gentleman way ACC care.about-IMPERF, food ACC care.about-{{gcl|PART(NEG)|negative imperfect participle}}
|"Wise men care about the way, not about the food"}}

Direct objects sometimes also take the nominative. It is commonly felt that the marked accusative has a definite sense, like using a definite article in English.<ref name=":2" /> However, in the negative form, transitive verbs always take the accusative:
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|cira '''be''' tuwa-hakū
|face ACC see-{{gcl|PART(NEG)|negative perfect participle}} 
|"(Someone) did not see the face"}}

The direct object expressing an object that is caused to perform an action also stands in the accusative:

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|tere '''be''' baita icihiya-bu-me gene
|that/he ACC business do-CAUS-CVB go(IMP)
|"Go and order him to do business"}}

The accusative may also indicate the space in which motion is happening or the means by which it is happening, as in ''jugūn '''be''' yabu-me'' ("going along a road") and ''morin '''be''' yabu-me'' ("riding a horse").<ref name=":2" />