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Definitions of datives in various dictionaries:
noun - the category of noun s serving as the indirect object of a verb
adv - a grammatical case [n -S] : DATIVAL [ adj ], DATIVELY
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Indirect objects, grammatically speaking |
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Dec 20 2015 New York Times |
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Plural form of dative. |
a noun or other word in the dative case. |
(in Latin, Greek, German, and some other languages) denoting a case of nouns and pronouns, and words in grammatical agreement with them, indicating an indirect object or recipient. |
A noun or other word in the dative case. |
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The dative case (abbreviated dat, or sometimes d when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate, among other uses, the noun to which something is given, as in "Maria Jacob potum dedit", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink". In these examples, the dative marks what would be considered the indirect object of a verb in English. * Sometimes the dative has functions unrelated to giving. In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article. In Georgian, the dative case also marks the subject of the sentence with some verbs and some tenses. This is called the dative construction. * The dative was common among early Indo-European languages and has survived to the present in the Balto-Slavic branch and the Germanic branch, among others. It also exists in similar forms in several non-Indo-European languages, such as the Uralic |