dative
/ˈdeɪtɪv
/Grammar
adjective
(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.The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case....
- Sick's latest book is Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod, which features complaints about sporadic failures to use dative case marking according to traditional (?) principles.
- A mantra is a kind of prayer that contains the name of God that is inflected grammatically in the dative case.
noun
1A noun or other word in the dative case.The particular example of ‘word rage’ that Bob cited involves one of these missing datives....
- Classical Mongolian had seven cases, all clearly distinguished, in contrast to Latin: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, ablative, instrumental, and comitative.
- ‘Das Ereignis ‘and ‘die Kehre im Ereignis ‘were only two in a long line of titles for what must always already be the case if givenness and its dative are to come together at all.’
1.1 (the dative) The dative case.It is the quintessential use of the dative case, the dative of means, grammatically speaking....
- The dative is used to designate an addressee (recipient). The dative is also used to show an object towards which an action is directed.
- The first and most common use of the dative is as an indirect object.
Derivatives
datival
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin (casus) dativus '(case) of giving', from dat- 'given', from the verb dare.