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dative

 
Dictionary: da·tive   ('tĭv) pronunciation
adj.
Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case that marks the recipient of action, that often indicates the indirect object of the verb, and that can be used with prepositions or other function words corresponding in meaning to English to and for.

n.
  1. The dative case.
  2. A word or form in the dative case.

[Middle English datif, from Latin (cāsus) datīvus, (case) of giving (translation of Greek dotikē ptōsis), from datus, past participle of dare, to give.]

datively da'tive·ly adv.

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dative ('tĭv) [Lat.,=giving], in Latin grammar, the case typically used to refer to an indirect object, i.e., a secondary recipient of an action. For example, him in I gave him a book is translated in Latin by a dative case. The Latin dative also has other uses; and the cases called dative in other languages correspond in their grammatical function only in part to that of the Latin. The residual dative case in English was treated in the early work of Noam Chomsky.


WordNet: dative
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb
  Synonym: dative case


The adjective dative has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (linguistics) relating to the dative case
  Pertains to noun: dative (meaning #1)


Translations: Dative
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - i dativ
n. - dativ

idioms:

  • dative case    dativ

Nederlands (Dutch)
datief (derde naamval)

Français (French)
adj. - datif
n. - datif, au datif

idioms:

  • dative case    cas datif

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Dativ-
n. - Dativ, dritter Fall, Wemfall

idioms:

  • dative case    Dativ, dritter Fall, Wemfall

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - της δοτικής
n. - (γραμμ.) δοτική (πτώση)

idioms:

  • dative case    δοτική πτώση

Italiano (Italian)
dativo

idioms:

  • dative case    dativo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - dativo (Gram.)
n. - dativo (m) (Gram.)

idioms:

  • dative case    caso (m) dativo (Gram.)

Русский (Russian)
дательный падеж

idioms:

  • dative case    дательный падеж

Español (Spanish)
adj. - dativo
n. - dativo

idioms:

  • dative case    caso dativo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - dativ
n. - dativobjekt

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
与格的, 与格, 与格语

idioms:

  • dative case    与格

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 與格的
n. - 與格, 與格語

idioms:

  • dative case    與格

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 여격의
n. - 여격

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 与格
adj. - 与格の

idioms:

  • dative case    与格(文法)

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) دال على حاله من حالات النصب يكون فيها المفعول به غير مباشر ( في القواعد اللغويه) (الاسم) صيغه المفعول به غير المباشر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮של יחסת המושא העקיף או יחסת אל‬
n. - ‮יחסת אל, מושא עקיף‬


 
 

 

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