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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Arebhashe dialect (section Dative case)
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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Latin grammar (section Dative)
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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Romanian grammar (section Dative case)
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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Melo language (section Dative case)
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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Norwegian dialects (section Dative case)
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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Tamil grammar (section Dative Case)
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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Turkish grammar (section Dative case)
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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Burzio's generalization (section Dative Case Marking)
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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Ancient Greek grammar (section Cases)
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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