da·tive (d  t v)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 (csus) dat vus, (case) of giving (translation of Greek dotik pt sis), from datus, past participle of dare, to give; see d- in Indo-European roots.]
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dative [ˈdeɪtɪv] Grammaradj (Linguistics / Grammar) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives used to express the indirect object, to identify the recipients, and for other purposes n (Linguistics / Grammar) a. the dative case b. a word or speech element in this case [from Latin datīvus, from dare to give; translation of Greek dotikos] datival [deɪˈtaɪvəl] adj datively adv
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. | dative - the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb |
Translations dative [ˈdeɪtɪv]B. N ( also dative case) → dativo m dative [ˈdeɪtɪv] n (GRAMMAR) → datif m dative adj → Dativ-, dativisch; dative object → Dativobjekt nt; the dative case → der Dativ dative [ˈdeɪtɪv]1. adj → dativo/a
dative [ˈdeɪtɪv]1. adj → dativo/a
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| Very well--then THE rain is DER Regen, if it is simply in the quiescent state of being MENTIONED, without enlargement or discussion--Nominative case; but if this rain is lying around, in a kind of a general way on the ground, it is then definitely located, it is DOING SOMETHING--that is, RESTING (which is one of the German grammar's ideas of doing something), and this throws the rain into the Dative case, and makes it DEM Regen. It would be an easy map if that were all, but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needle-work, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on, and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still. He very soon set down poor Tom as a thoroughly stupid lad; for though by hard labor he could get particular declensions into his brain, anything so abstract as the relation between cases and terminations could by no means get such a lodgment there as to enable him to recognize a chance genitive or dative. |