Nota accusativi is a grammatical term meaning "denoting accusative case". It is generally applied to linguistic indicators of the accusative case. An example is the use of the preposition a in Spanish to indicate an animate direct object (the "personal a"): "Jorge llama a María".
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Esperanto
Officially, in Esperanto, the sufix letter "n" is used to mark an accusative. But a few modern speakers use the unofficial preposition "na" instead of the final "n".
- Mi havas domon.
- Mi havas na domo.
- I have a house.
Hebrew
In Hebrew the preposition אֶת et used for definite nouns in the accusative. Those nouns might be indicated by use of the definite article (ה Ha "the"). To continue with the Hebrew example:
Ani ro'eh et ha-kelev. אני רואה את הכלב
I see the dog.
אני רואה את כלבי
I see my dog
אני רואה את דניאל
I see Daniel
On the other hand, "I see a dog" is simply "Ani ro'eh kelev." אני רואה כלב
This example is obviously a specialized use of the nota accusativi, since Hebrew does not use the nota accusativi unless the noun in question is definite.
Japanese
In Japanese, the particle "を" (pronounced "お" o) is the direct object marker and marks the recipient of an action.
Toki Pona
In Toki Pona, the word e is used to mark accusative.
Other languages
Nota accusativi also exists in Armenian, Greek and other languages.
In other languages, especially those that indicate case grammatically, there is usually a separate form (for each declension if declensions exist) to indicate the accusative case. The nota accusativi should not be confused with such case forms, as the term nota accusativi denotes a separate particle indicating the accusative case.