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dative
[dey-tiv]
adjective
(in certain inflected languages, as Latin, Greek, and German) noting a case having as a distinctive function indication of the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
noun
the dative case.
a word or form in that case, as Latin regi in regi haec dicite meaning “tell this to the king.”
dative
/ ˈdeɪtɪv, deɪˈtaɪvəl /
adjective
denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives used to express the indirect object, to identify the recipients, and for other purposes
noun
the dative case
a word or speech element in this case
Other 51Թ Forms
- datival adjective
- datively adverb
- nondatival adjective
- ˈ岹پ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dative1
Example Sentences
“We were going to use a dative or an accusative here but he suggested locative?”
My teacher was a stickler who was worried about the decline of the dative case, and who discouraged me from using expressions I picked up on the street.
Prepositional dative: Jocasta handed the infant to her servant.
It could never tell you if a pronoun took the dative or the accusative case.
Similarly, names unable to accommodate the endings required by the nominative, accusative, genitive and dative cases used in Icelandic are also routinely turned down.
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