The dative is used to denote the «purpose or end for which», often with anotherdative denoting the «person or thing affected».
There are nine irregular adjectives of the first and second declensions which have a peculiar termination in the genitive and dative singular of all genders: MASC.
The dative is used to denote the purpose or end for which; often with another dative denoting the person or thing affected.
Its indirect object, farmers According to the preceding section, to the farmers is a relation covered by the dative case, and we are prepared for the following rule: «45.
Observe that the ablative plural is like the dative plural.
If the nominative suffered a syncope in forming the genitive, or if the last vowel of the genitive is broad, the dative is like the nominative; as, buidheann f.
Noun, soldier; governed in the Dative by the Prep.
Thus, in forming the nominative and dative plural of many nouns, the syllables an and ibh are added to the singular, which letters fully express the true sound of these terminations.
Nouns ending in ch, of three or more syllables, form their dative plural like the nominative plural, rather than in ibh; as, coimhearsnach m.
The same happens to the initial a of the dative singular.
Except perhaps monosyllables which never form their nominative plural in a, nor their dative plural in ibh; as, damh m.
The dative singular is like the nominative; as, duine m.
Monosyllables ending in an aspirated consonant, which have their nominative plural like the genitive singular, form their dative plural like the nominative plural; as, damh an ox, g.
The guenzan governs the dative just as does the verb ai,ó.
In the following case we do not see the nominative, but rather are ni va, which is in the dative or ablative; are ni va, navo voixri atta [.
The genitive and dative are changed in the next example (I.
All these postpositions of the genitive and kit^u of the dative are declined regularly as substantives, the masculine ones belonging to the second declension and the feminine ones to the third.
These genitive terminations, and also the dative termination kit^u, are adjectives, and agree with the governing noun in gender, number and case.
Similarly for the dativewe have the following forms: malis kit^u pan^u, water (masc.
I have followed Ritter in constructing Lacaenae adulterae as a dative with splendet; but I have done so as a poetical translator rather than as a commentator.
Either accusative or dative would be acceptable enough with latere.
The dative construction is taken up by the author of the later Heroides (XVI 99, XVIII 62).
Gellius IX xiv 21 gives two examples ofdative facie from Lucilius.
Of the ancient Saxon dative case, and of what was once considered the government of two cases, there yet appear some evident remains in our language; as, "Give him bread to eat.
The dative case, or oblique object, which they governed as Saxon verbs, becomes their proper object, when taken as English prepositions; and in this also they appear to be alike.
How do our grammarians now dispose of what remains to us of the old Saxon dative case?
The Latin word for participle is participium, which makes participio in the dative or the ablative case; but the Latin word for partake is participo, and not "participio.
This is a faulty relic of our old Saxon dative case.
Here, the person persuaded is expressed in the dative case, and cannot, therefore, be the nominative to the passive verb.
In Latin there are six cases namely the nominative the genitive the dative the accusative the vocative and the ablative.
This elliptical construction of a few objectives, is what remains to us of the ancient Saxon dative case.
If the dative case has the meaning of to, and the ablative has the meaning of from, how can they be expounded, in English, but by suggesting the particle, where it is omitted?
The dative with the passive present, though of course possible, is unlikely in Dionysius.
In Greek the neuter stem and the dative case were alone retained for the purpose.
Various cases, such as the locative, the dative or the instrumental, are employed in Vedic Sanskrit in the sense of the infinitive, besides the bare stem or neuter formed by the suffixes man and van.
The Latin infinitive in -re for -se has the same origin, amare, for instance, being the dativeof an old stem amas.
Between thedative and accusative on the one side and the nominative on the other there has been war in the English language for centuries, and it has always tended to become a war of extermination.
Suppose, also, that all the dative cases ended in -m, and all the accusatives in some other letter.
The idea of direction towards an object conveyed by the dative case, and by combinations equivalent to it.
Smiðum is the radical syllable smið + the subordinate inflectional syllable -um, the sign of the dative case.
The presence of the dative singular in -e; ende, smithe.
The combination to smiths is the substantive smiths + the preposition to, equivalent in power to the sign of a dative case, but different from it in form.
From the fact that in most languages which have inflections to a sufficient extent, the word meaning like governs a dative case.
The r is no part of the original word, but the sign of the dative case.
In Anglo-Saxon the dative of the infinitive verb ended in -nne, and was preceded by the preposition to.
The indirect object, the objective of service, and the objective after like, unlike, and near are all survivals of old dative constructions.
The dative case is easily distinguished in Greek, Latin, and German, but in English it has long been merged in form with the ordinary objective.
The free use of the genitive and dative of the gerundive to denote purpose is common in Tacitus, the former being almost limited to him.
The dative of purpose and the dative with a substantive in place of a genitive are more common with Tacitus than with any writer.
Compound verbs are frequently followed by the accusative where the dative might have been expected; and the Virgilian construction of an accusative with middle and passive verbs is not unusual.
On being asked why the dative of the relative had been his limit, he explained that his teacher had not been able to pronounce it and so he could go no further.
After a while the boy came and said that he had learned the Latin Grammar as far as the dative of the relative.
This dative plural explains the origin of many existing names of places in Germany, as Goettingen, Dettingen, Tuebingen, &c.
Mark Twain says he paid double for a German dog, because he bought it in the dative case; but no nation need be damned for a dative.
Here France, the runner-up, is a trifle slow in the possession of a real, live dative case of the pronoun (acc.
Feminine names of persons ending in a consonant take {-e} in the genitive, dative and accusative, but occasionally remain uninflected throughout.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
