Source: wikibot/nominative-accusative-alignment
= Nominative–accusative alignment
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Nominative-accusative alignment is a type of morphosyntactic alignment found in many languages, particularly in Indo-European languages. In systems with nominative-accusative alignment, the subject of an intransitive verb (a verb that does not take a direct object) is treated the same way as the subject of a transitive verb (a verb that does take a direct object).