 What's up guys, EvilD here and I'm back for some more Esperanto slash World of Warcraft lessons. Now, this time this isn't going to be part of my standard Esperanto World of Warcraft series, for those who don't know I do a series, yes I do a series. This is just going to be focused on one aspect of Esperanto and that's the accusative case and the reason being is because several people have asked me, especially door lingo learners, if I can somehow clarify it just a little bit more for them. So I figured you know what, I'll use my gaming and we'll just see what happens, okay? So first up, let's explain what the accusative case is and in totally not layman's speech, the accusative case is simply just the object of the transitive verb in a sentence. Now if you're like eh, that's cool. I was like that probably about five years ago as well when I first heard about Esperanto. I'll clarify exactly what each of those words are in a second, don't worry you're going to sound super sick after you've learned all these nice dancing new words. So first up, the standard sentence in any language, okay, but particularly in English has three parts to it and those parts are, oh what is that? No, I don't want that. Those parts are a subject verb object. So let's let's look at an example. So I have a cat, okay? I have a cat. So I is the subject because it is, actually I won't explain subjects just yet, I'll just point out each part. So I is the subject, havas, oh sorry, that's English, Esperanto. So I have a cat. So have is the verb of the sentence, okay? And cut the cat, oh my god and cat is the object of the sentence, okay? So I have a cat, so subject verb object, okay? You got that down path? Now the verb is the doing word, okay? So it basically tells you what's being done to what in a sentence. Now the cat is the object. The reason being is because it's the thing that's being had. It's the thing that I have and I am the subject because I am the thing that has. So the subject is the thing that has, the object is the thing that's being had and the verb is the thing that's have, like doing the have. So I hope I didn't confuse the hell out of you but let's let's just go with that, okay? We'll see how that goes. So now we know what the three components to a sentence are. In English, the way we dictate this is usually just through word order. So if I say I have a cat, we know the cat is the thing I have because it comes last in the sentence. We have a subject verb object word order in English. However, if I suddenly then went cat I have, that would sound like a really bad cartoon name but apart from that, it would change the meaning of the sentence because word order in English dictates what we're trying to say. But in Esperanto, that is not the case. Word order doesn't have much play within the meaning of a sentence. Oh God, something's trying to kill me. Why would you do that? So for instance, I have a cat in English can only be said one way and that is I have a cat. If you said a cat have I, you've changed the meaning. But in Esperanto, let's say let's look who we've gotten this group. We've got a mage, we've got a warlock, we've got a rogue and we've got a druid. Let's just go with druid, okay? So the word for druid is druido, nice, nice simple word, okay? And he's going to be the word that we play with the most in this particular lesson. So to say I have a druid would say mi havas druidon. Now, did you notice that before when I taught you the word for druid, it was druidon? But when I taught you it as the object of the sentence, it went from druidon to druidon? The reason being is because it is now the object in Esperanto that n sound you hear at the end that that I attached to the end of the druid, that is called the accusative case. And it is a marker that tells you what is the object of the sentence. So when I say I have a druid, what do I have? A druid. So the druid is what's being had. It is the object. Cool, we got that. Awesome. So the standard word order in Esperanto is the same as English, funnily enough. So this is where English speakers usually get a little bit confused because they get used to the standard word order and then someone else comes along and mixes it up and they're like no. So I have a druid in Esperanto. Standard in most sentences is mi havas druidon, okay? Nice and simple. But if I suddenly then say druidon havas mi or mi druidon or mi havas druidon, that's the standard one again. There's several different ones you can play it around, you can move it around but they all have exactly the same meaning in Esperanto. Now this is where it gets a little bit confusing for some people. Oh shiver me timbers, someone's trying to eat me. They think okay well it's got the same meaning then that's cool, I just use whatever. Yes it does have the same meaning but there is something else, there is emphasis okay. So for instance in Esperanto when you say mi havas druidon, that's the standard word order in Esperanto. So everyone's like cool he has a druid but then if you come along and you say druidon havas mi, everyone's like okay so he has a druid but hang on, he's not using the standard Esperanto word order. Why is he doing that? What is his purpose? And that's where you come in to play with emphasis okay. So when you move or change the word order in Esperanto unless you continually consistently follow this different word order, people are going to think you're trying to emphasize it for a reason. Now this won't change the meaning of the sentence in any way but they might, it probably will change absolutely nothing about the conversation but people will just go okay for some reason he's emphasizing druid. Okay well that's cool and there could be several reasons why he's doing that maybe it is actually just his native word order that's what he's used to or it could be the fact that maybe he wants to say druid first just to make sure that I actually hear it or maybe it's so important that it must come first above everything else in its world. Like there's several different reasons why you might want to change it around but yeah just where the hell is my rogue? Where is my rogue? Where is my rogue? Oh fudge me timbers where is he? Sorry my rogue just went and got himself attacked. I don't know what he's doing he's being annoying. Oh no don't attack me. Oh why? I don't want to die I'm too young and beautiful. But since when did the healer become the tank? Like seriously? Okay let's let's just protect my guy. Okay so we've learnt that one so now we're gonna practice with a little bit of game words and we're gonna play with word or what isn't all that type of stuff so the way to say heal because that's what I'm doing a lot I'm healing a lot here you'd say sanigas okay so I heal the druid would be me sanigas la druidon okay that's the standard word order and you'll notice that I put druidon again in the accusative case and the reason for that is because it's the object of the sentence but how would you say I have oh I heal a druid I completely flip it around go on be crazy live on the edge completely flip that word order let's go druidon sanigas me okay so there you go you've just changed that word order druidon sanigas me but how would you then say that like say the same thing that I just taught you the same sentence but this time put the druid between the verb and the the pronoun the pronoun is the subject by the way sorry if I just ruined a new word so that would be me druidon sanigas okay so you see these all mean the same thing but we're playing with the word order and you're probably thinking why are you making my life so difficult I'm not you've got to remember that Esperanto is an international language just designed for the entire world and not the entire world a large portion but the not the entire the entirety of the entire world that's a lot of entires uses the same word order as English for instance Japanese does it quite differently they they I believe put the verbs at the end of the sentence then you've got other languages where they completely reverse it you've got German which I think also puts verbs in a different spot I can't remember but there's a lot of different word orders out there so Esperanto has to cater for everyone in that sense okay and in order to make it easy that's why the accusative case exists now because we English speakers are so used to our set in ways of using only one particular method we get used to it and then suddenly someone mixes it up and we're like we hate you but yeah you'll get used to it over time it will probably take you I don't know five years no joking it won't take you that long unless you're as bad as me but it will take you a while to get used to it so um apparently someone's abusing someone else in the group this is lovely so how do you say standard word order I heal the druid me sanigas la druidon me sanigas la druidon and how would you say um I heal the druid but in reverse word order completely reverse la druidon sanigas me and how would you say that but put the object between the subject and the verb go me druidon sanigas okay now I hope that by doing this we're getting used to this um different word orders so let's try another one we're going to use the verb see this time so the verb for c is vidas vidas okay so how would you say I see the druid standard word order me uh what is attacking me now me vidas la druidon me vidas la druidon and how would you say it complete reverse word order la druidon vidas me la druidon vidas me and how would you say it um but this time put the object between the verb and the uh subject go me la druidon vidas me la druidon vidas okay now there is other uses for the accusative in Esperanto there's actually many other uses and this will probably drive you insane when you find out about these but I'm not going to cover them in this video I just wanted to teach you the main purpose of the accusative case and the reason the accusative case has many different meanings in Esperanto is just in order to simplify things overall for um us and when I say simplify you're like no it doesn't simplify at all but once you actually learn to use the accusative case correctly you actually find it's a blessing like for instance there's certain things in English you just can't say in any other way than the standard word order but in Esperanto you can mix everything up everything can go anywhere which gives you so much flexibility when it comes to translation when it comes to poetry when it comes to just being creative overall that's the beauty of the accusative case now most people will are like why would a created language a language with created origins use such a complex system and it's because yes it was designed to be an international language so it caters for everyone but also it needs to be a language which is flexible enough to be able to be used for anything and that's the beauty of the accusative once you learn to actually take control of it and use it correctly you'll just see how effective it is and that's why a lot of new speakers are like why are the old guard the old crap old crap no not me not me no me not me not me not why I almost got pwned okay so that's why the old guard the old espanas are like they really get hard and they're like not get hard whoa you guys dirty minded that's why they really defend the use of the accusative case because they see how useful it is within the language it's many uses and that's why a lot of new speakers are like get really annoyed about it because they see how hard it is, but all you have to do is just hang in there long enough just practice it enough and eventually you will get it and once you do get it you will feel awesome about it because you'll be like yeah I just did the most impossible thing ever but then you'll be like whoa and I'll notice this you have beginning Esperanto speakers who will follow standard word order then you'll have speakers who have learned just learned to no I don't want to do another one who've just learned to actually fully use the accuser case and they're the most familiar ones because they put it everywhere they they completely mix up sentences just so they can go mmm look at me man I know how to use the accuser and then you will get the old guard and they'll only ever use it for emphasis or in poetry or stuff like that or in translation if need be but yeah that's the accuser of case now I hope I have I've cleared it up enough for you guys I've stopped inviting me to groups seriously okay I don't want to be invited to your groups so yeah I hope I've cleared it up enough for you if not just leave a comment below I swear to God if someone invites me to another group again I'm gonna kill them leave a comment below and I'll try and like sort out whatever your issue is however if you feel that this lesson was like really crappy and you didn't actually understand anything also let me know so yeah that's it if you've liked this video give it a like share it around with your friends subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and I'll see you in the next video otherwise guess what I'm going to use the accuser of case for on you