Nominative–accusative language

Use accusative for the subject of transitive verbs (typically the agent argument) and the subject of intransitive verbs the same case, namely the nominative.

For the direct object of transitive verbs (typically the undergoer argument) another case is used, namely the accusative ( hence the name ).

The Indo-European languages ​​(eg German, Latin or Greek) are generally accusative languages ​​, but also in many other language families comes this scheme before, eg in the Uralic languages ​​(eg Finnish, Hungarian ) and in the Turkic languages ​​(eg Turkish) as well as in Japanese.

Scheme

Example

A typical example of a Akkusativsprache is Latin: