单词 | dative case |
释义 | > as lemmasdative case 1. Grammar. In ancient Greek, Latin, German, and other inflected languages: designating a case of nouns, pronouns, and of words in grammatical agreement with them, the central function of which is to indicate the indirect object or recipient of a verb (equivalent to the modern English prepositions to or for followed by a noun); of or relating to such a case, or the relation expressed by it. Frequently in dative case. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [adjective] > dative dativec1400 datival1818 c1400 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 55 Þe datif cas singuler. c1434 J. Drury Eng. Writings in Speculum (1934) 9 81 (MED) A nown of þe comparatif degre..may be construid..With a datif case..Sum similior patri meo quam matri mee. c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 18 Qwerby knowyst datyf case? For ‘to’ beforn a casual wurd wtowtyn a preposicyon is syne of datyf case. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong A..serueth many times to expresse the Datiue case: as Je l'ay donne à mon pere, I gaue it to my father. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. 129 Mihi..is a Pronoune set downe in the booke. All the questions are plaine in it, except why it must bee the Datiue case. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 352 The Dative Case is expressed by the Preposition (To). 1725 J. Stevens New Spanish Gram. 184 Verbs Active, sometimes govern a Dative, and sometimes an Accusative Case. 1798 Gentleman's Mag. July 570/2 Surely the sign of the dative case is here only to be understood, and then the meaning will be ‘wo is to me’. 1839 L. Ramshorn tr. F. Lieber Dict. Lat. Synonymes 38 ō, the Dative and Ablative form of the second declension. 1853 H. Clarke Gram. Eng. Tongue 67 When a substantive is put next after a verb it sometimes takes a dative meaning as ‘Alfred gave Edwin a book’, that is, ‘Alfred gave to Edwin a book’. 1879 H. J. Roby Gram. Lat. Lang. iv. ix. §1130 The Dative case is used in two senses only: (A) It expresses the indirect object... (B) It is used predicatively in a quasi-adjectival sense. 1934 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 54 221/2 The inconsistent forms of the dative plurals in -αις and -ασι. 1986 Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1983 52 He argues that with verbs which can take either accusative or dative objects, dative tends to signal relatively low opposedness between subject and object. 1992 Word 43 131 The merger of the nominative and accusative and of the accusative and dative cases in Pennsylvania German. < as lemmas |
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