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Dative

noun
1.
The category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb.  Synonym: dative case.



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"Dative" Quotes from Famous Books



... river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, 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 ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie



Words linked to "Dative" :   oblique, oblique case



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