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Präpositionen – Questions on prepositions, i.e., words that express spatial or temporal relations

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Reason for use of accusative in this phrase?

Languages pre-date modern Physics. People thought that seeing involved some kind of action starting with your eyes and moving toward the seen object, rather than light moving in the opposite direction …
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