• In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated dat, or sometimes d when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient...
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  • The dative construction is a grammatical way of constructing a sentence using the dative case. A sentence is also said to be in dative construction if...
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  • of an action. In Classical Greek, for example, the dative case is used as the instrumental case. This can be seen in the sentence "..με κτείνει δόλῳ...
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  • nominative case is used. The term objective case is generally preferred by modern English grammarians, where it supplanted Old English's dative and accusative...
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  • three cases, which are simplified forms of the nominative, accusative (including functions formerly handled by the dative) and genitive cases. They are...
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  • incorporated in a dative case. In Latin this type of dative is called the dativus commodi. An example of a language with a benefactive case is Basque, which...
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  • prepositional case, especially if preceded by the definite article. In traditional grammars, and in scholarly treatments of the early language, the term dative case...
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  • Luxembourgish have a dative case but lack a genitive. In Irish nouns, the nominative and accusative have fallen together, while the dative case has remained separate...
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  • locative case merged into other cases (often genitive or dative) in form and/or function, but some daughter languages retained it as a distinct case. It is...
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    ablative case (as the sixth case after nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and vocative) for German words. They arbitrarily considered the dative case after...
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  • linguistics, dative shift refers to a pattern in which the subcategorization of a verb can take on two alternating forms, the oblique dative form or the...
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  • grammar, a fifth case (since the dative case is the fourth case and the genitive case is the sixth in the traditional order of the cases) is sometimes considered:...
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  • functions of the dative case in marking the recipient or beneficent of an action. By some linguists, they are still regarded as two separate cases in those languages...
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  • understood case usage, as in them, her, him and whom, which merges the accusative and dative functions, and originates in old Germanic dative forms (see...
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  • appeared: The experiencer case role (dative in many languages) The recipient case role (dative in many languages) The possessor case role (genitive in many...
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    case) rēgem videt "(he) sees the king" (accusative case) Further cases mean "of" (genitive case), "to/for" (dative case), and "with" (ablative case)...
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  • morphological case differentiation in nouns. Nevertheless, declensions have been reduced to only three forms (nominative/accusative, genitive/dative, and vocative)...
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  • grammar, a double dative is the combination of a dative of reference with a dative of purpose. A common translation is "As a (dative of purpose) with reference...
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  • There are eight cases in Malo[clarification needed]. Nominative Accusative Dative Genitive Instrumental Commutative Ablative Nominative case has <i> and <a>...
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    Aasen treated the dative case in detail in his work, Norsk Grammatik (1848), and use of Norwegian dative as a living grammatical case can be found in a...
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  • Declension (redirect from Case suffix)
    indicate number (e.g. singular, dual, plural), case (e.g. nominative, accusative, genitive, or dative), gender (e.g. masculine, feminine, or neuter),...
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  • grammatical case, of which there are 9: nominative case, accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, sociative case, locative case, ablative case, genitive...
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  • objects. For definite direct objects, the definite accusative case is used. The dative case tells the place to which. Thus it has roughly the meaning of...
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    μαμωνᾶ (genitive case) in verse 9, [ἐν τῷ ἀδίκῳ] μαμωνᾷ (dative case) in verse 11, and [οὐ δύνασθε θεῷ δουλεύειν καὶ] μαμωνᾷ (dative case) in verse 13. The...
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  • list of grammatical cases as they are used by various inflectional languages that have declension. This list will mark the case, when it is used, an...
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  • case, it is common to differentiate the objects of a ditransitive verb using, for example, the accusative case for the direct object, and the dative case...
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  • unpredictable patterns of dative morphology assignment. Below are two examples from Esther Torrego that show data case is assigned by a quirky case verb, finish....
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  • different cases of the noun. The four principal cases are called the nominative (subject), accusative (direct object), genitive (of), and dative (to, for...
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  • was historically used only for the dative case, but in most[citation needed] modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers. You comes from the Proto-Germanic...
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    cannot be done intentionally. Dative — these involitional verbs require the subject to be in the dative case. Non-dative — these verbs require the verb...
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