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Definition of Dative case
1. Noun. The category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb.
Definition of Dative case
1. Noun. (grammar): case used to express direction towards an indirect object, the receiver, and is generally indicated in English by ''to'' or ''for'' with the objective case. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dative Case
Literary usage of Dative case
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"dative case 360. The Dative is probably, like the Genitive, a grammatical case,
that is, it a form appropriated to the expression of a variety of relations ..."
2. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"dative case 360. The Dative is probably, like the Genitive, a grammatical case,
that is, it is a form appropriated to the ..."
3. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"Can a purely Dravidian origin be discovered for the Dravidian dative case-suffix
ku ? The locative suffixes il and in can be explained ab intra; ..."
4. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1913)
"THE dative case. Functions of the Dative. § 187. The general function of the
dative in Old English and the Teutonic languages is influence or interest ..."
5. Greek Prose Composition by Henry Carr Pearson (1897)
"LESSON III THE dative case 23. The Dative is the case of the Indirect Object of
a transitive verb. This object is generally introduced in English by to: ..."
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