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Definition of Datives

Dative
Dative Da"tive, n. [L. dativus.] The dative case. See Dative, a., 1.

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- Old English datives. For example, "him" goes back to the Old English dative him (accusative was hine), and "her" goes back to the dative hire (accusative...
- representations. He relates the oblique dative and double object structures derivationally.: 350  To account for oblique datives, Larson adopts a proposal originally...
- grammar, a double dative is the combination of a dative of reference with a dative of purpose. A common translation is "As a (dative of purpose) with reference...
- The dative construction is a grammatical way of constructing a sentence, using the dative case. A sentence is also said to be in dative construction if...
- In coordination chemistry, a coordinate covalent bond, also known as a dative bond, dipolar bond, or coordinate bond is a kind of two-center, two-electron...
- school, but for life". The scholae and vitae are first-declension feminine datives of purpose. The motto is an inversion of the original, which appeared in...
- to one of the five cases (nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, or dative). The set of forms that a noun will take for each case and number is determined...
- preferred by modern English grammarians, where it supplanted Old English's dative and accusative. When the two terms are contrasted, they differ in the ability...
- standalone datives in the second and fifth declensions. In the standard language, only two words Éire ("Ireland") and fiche ("twenty") have distinct datives -...
- pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most[citation needed] modern dialects is used for all cases...