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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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