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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
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Derived Forms
- datival, adjective
- ˈ岹پ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms
- 岹·پ· [dey-, tahy, -v, uh, l], adjective
- 岹t· adverb
- ԴDzd·پv adjective
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yvlog History and Origins
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of dative1
C15: from Latin 岹īܲ, from dare to give; translation of Greek dotikos
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Example Sentences
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“We were going to use a dative or an accusative here but he suggested locative?”
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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.
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Prepositional dative: Jocasta handed the infant to her servant.
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It could never tell you if a pronoun took the dative or the accusative case.
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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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