What are the other uses of the accusative case?

The accusative case may also be used with verbs implying 'motion towards'. So for example if I was running towards the house, the house would be placed in the accusative. In this scenario, it is accompanied by the preposition ad which means towards. Therefore in Latin, this example would be ad domum currebam. domum is the accusative of domus in Latin meaning house and is followed by the preposition ad to mean towards.The accusative is also used in indirect speech, also known as the accusative/infinitive construction. Indirect speech counts as any report of what has been said or is being said. So for example:Direct speech: The boy was laughing.Indirect speech: They said that the boy was laughing. In this case, the subject of the speech is placed in the accusative and the verb is in the accusative (so in this case, the boy is placed in the accusative, and the verb describing him (laughing) is put in the infinitive. So essentially this would translate in latin to:dixerunt puerum ridere.

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