dative case


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Dative case
The dative case is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to whom something is given. The name is derived from the Latin casus dativus, meaning "the case appropriate to giving"; this was in turn modelled on the Greek, from its use with the verb διδόμαι (didómai) — "to give".The thing being given may be a tangible object, such as "a book" or "a pen", or it may be an intangible abstraction, such as "an answer" or "help". The dative generally marks the indirect object of a verb, although in some instances the dative is used for the direct object of a verb pertaining directly to an act of giving something. In Russian, for example, the verb 'to call' [by telephone] is always followed by a noun in the dative.
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dative case
Noun
1. the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb
(synonym) dative
(hypernym) oblique, oblique case




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