noun
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(grammar) The dative case.
adjective
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(grammar) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
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In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege.
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Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; — said of an officer.
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Given by a judge, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law itself.
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Formed by two electrons contributed by one atom; see dative bond.
Examples of dative in a Sentence
The broad lower end of the symbol is rather an accidental pit in the stone than an attempt at a diacritic mark - the word is regei, in all probability the early dative form of rex, " king."
The oldest form of the word is Eriu, of which Erinn is the dative case.
The rounded form ofy is found with the value of G in R EC E I, which is probably the dative of rex.
At phrase-level, all constituents containing an instrumental are labeled dative.
These belong to a group of four auxiliary particles called te ni wo ha (or we), which serve to mark the cases of nouns, te (or de) being the sign of the instrumental ablative; ni that of the dative; wo that of the objective, and wa that of the nominative.
All tenses of reflexive verbs except the imperative and present participle are formed by prefixing the pronoun which indicates the object to the verb, in the dative or genitive case (abbreviated) as the verb may require; but in the reflexive imperative and present participle the verb precedes the pronoun; e.g.
Without the dative form the sentence will have the same referential meaning.
Thus trying to promote to subject genitive objects [...] or dative objects [...] yields ungrammatical results.
There are three declensions, each with a definite and indefinite form; the genitive, dative and ablative are usually represented by a single termination; the vocative is formed by a final o, as memmo from memme, " mother."
The inscription is earlier than the Latin change of s between vowels into r, for Numasioi is the dative of the older form which corresponds to the later Numerius.
Again, " with " is in Homer auv (with the dative), in Attic prose perec with the genitive.
Triphthongs are not uncommon, th Sanskrit avebhyas (dative plural of acva, a horse) is in Zend in paeibyo; Sanskrit krnoti (he does), Zend kerenaoiti.
Does the verb govern the accusative or the dative?
An OH - nucleophile forms a dative covalent bond with one of the hydrogen atoms.