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dative::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dative case |
| Type of | oblique, oblique case |
Examples of dative
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The dative case, however, lived on in a few dialects well into the 20th century.
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In general, the dative is used to mark the indirect object of a German sentence.
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The dative case marks the recipient of an action, the indirect object of a verb.
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You also swapped the dative, instrumental and genitive forms in the 3rd person.
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There is neither a dative nor a genitive of the impersonal interrogative pronoun.
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These prepositions can take either the accusative or dative grammatical cases.
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In Classical Greek, for example, the dative case is used as the instrumental case.
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Another example is use of the genitive case where the dative case is required.
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In older forms of German, one of these accusative objects was a dative object.
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- The category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb
- The dative case (abbreviated , or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to whom something is given. For example, in "John gave Mary a book".
- (datively) As a gift
- Marking the indirect object (John gave the dog to Bill)
- One of the cases in Latin. Words in the dative case can often be translated into English with the preopositions to or for.
- That which may be given or disposed of at will and pleasure. It sometimes means that which is not cast upon the party by the law, or by a testator, but which is given by the magistrate; in this sense it is that tutorship is dative, when the tutor is appointed by the malistrate. Lec. Elem. ...
- OE case form of indirect objects, some objects of prepositions, and certain adverbial expressions.
