akuzativaj

Akuzativaj is a term derived from Latin *accusativus*, meaning "accusative." It appears primarily in the grammatical description of Slavic and Balto-Slavic languages, where it refers to the accusative case in the plural. The suffix ‑aj indicates a plural adjective form in Esperanto, thus akuzativaj can be interpreted as "accusative plural" or "the accusative case expressed in plural form." In Slavic languages, the accusative case marks the direct object of a transitive verb. For example, in Russian, the word for "books" in the accusative plural is «книги» (knigi) when the noun is not animate, but changes to «книги» (knigi) or «книг» (knig) for animate objects. The grammatical function is to indicate the noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb. Akuzativaj forms are also used for case inflection patterns in comparative linguistics, illustrating how modern Slavic languages evolved from Proto-Indo-European language structures. This term is of particular interest to linguists studying case alignment, agreement patterns, and historical language change across the Slavic family.