• Dative case (redirect from Dativ)
    phrase using "to": "he gave a book to me". In general, the dative (German: Dativ) is used to mark the indirect object of a German sentence. For example:...
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  • Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (English: The Dative is the Death of the Genitive) is a series of books by Bastian Sick which deal in an entertaining...
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    print by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne. The title of the book called Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (literally The Dative is to the Genitive its Death)...
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  • uses cartoons to explain the problems presented by their poor usage. Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod Linguistic prescription Standard English Lynne...
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    adjuncts, possession, prepositions of motion, time and location 3. třetí pád dativ dative Indirect objects, prepositions of motion 4. čtvrtý pád akuzativ accusative...
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    found. The construction is deliberately used as a pun in the title of Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (lit. The dative is to the genitive its death instead...
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  • There are seven cases: nominative (nominatīvs) genitive (ģenitīvs) dative (datīvs) accusative (akuzatīvs) instrumental (instrumentālis) locative (lokatīvs)...
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  • April 27, 2014. Retrieved November 24, 2013. a. Sick, Bastian (2004). Der Dativ ist dem Genetiv sein Tod (in German). Kiepenheuer & Witsch. pp. 131–135...
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  • the nominative. Dative forms with the ending -e, known in German as the Dativ-e (dem Gotte, dem Manne) are mostly restricted to formal usage, but widely...
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  • obsolete by modern formulations. There is a well-known German saying "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod" (The dative case is the death of the genitive...
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