dative

As such, it is also called the "dative of pronouns."

This dative is mostly, if not exclusively, used in pronouns.

The dative has the same form as the nominative.

Sometimes the dative has functions unrelated to giving.

In these clauses the head is marked dative.

Furthermore the dative is only used in fixed expressions and after prepositions with a figurative meaning.

For example, many of the various Latin ablatives have a corresponding Icelandic dative.

The following exemplary sentence features both a progressive verb construction and a possessive dative.

In Latin this type of dative is called the dativus commodi.

The singular dative is -iui for the common gender, like in masculine nouns.

By contrast, German distinguishes four cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative.

During the Old English period, the instrumental was falling out of use, having largely merged with the Dative.

Inalienable nominals (body parts and kinship) are only optionally marked dative.

Dative also focuses on location.

It is peculiar in that it may be used when body parts or animals belonging to someone are the direct object (the "dative of possession").

What is a 'testament dative'?

Irish has four cases: common (usually called nominative, but it covers the role of an accusative as well), vocative, genitive, and dative.

Dative is separated from the Accusative and Nominative case, in that it differs from the two others, which are identical.

The dative also is for objects: usually indirect objects, but sometimes objects that in English would be considered direct:

(In Scotland - Confirmation to Executor Dative or Nominate).

A common translation is "As a (dative of purpose) to (dative of reference)."

The same occurs when deriving from Greek (however, Greek lacks an ablative so the dative is used instead):

Dative: umivam si roke (I am washing my hands.

Dative: umivate si roke (You are washing your hands.

As in English, the main remaining distinction is that between subject and object, while the old dative and accusative forms have merged into one object form.