dative case

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

Examples
They gave gifts to the sailors. They give water to the plants. They gave the sailors gifts. They give the plants water. Jimmy has said prayers for a pony for several years, now. Jimmy has prayed for a pony for several years, now.

dative case (plural dative cases)

1. (grammar) Case used to express direction towards an indirect object, the recipient or beneficiary of an action, and is generally indicated in English by to (when a recipient) or for (when a beneficiary) with the objective case. The direct object may be either stated or unstated where the indirect object is the beneficiary of the verbal action, but is stated where the indirect object is a recipient. If there is emphasis on the indirect object, the indirect object usually precedes the direct object and is not usually indicated with to or for; said structure is also used when neither object is being emphasized.

Translations

case used to express direction towards an indirect object

• Albanian: dhanore (sq) f
• Arabic: حَالَة الْمَفْعُول لَهُ f (ḥāla(t) al-mafʕūl lahu), حَالَة مِنْ حَالَات النُّصْب f (ḥāla(t) min ḥālāt an-nuṣb)
• Armenian: տրական հոլով (hy) (trakan holov), տրական (hy) (trakan)
• Asturian: dativu m
• Belarusian: дава́льны склон m (daválʹny sklon), дава́льны m (daválʹny)
• Bulgarian: да́телен паде́ж m (dátelen padéž)
• Carpathian Rusyn: датів m (dativ)
• Catalan: datiu (ca) m
• Chechen: лург дожар (lurg dožar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 與格 / 与格 (zh) (yǔgé)

• Czech: dativ (cs) m, třetí pád m
• Dutch: datief (nl) m, derde naamval (nl) m, dativus (nl) m
• Erzya: максыця (maksïća)
• Esperanto: dativo (eo)
• Estonian: daativ (et)
• Faroese: hvørjumfall (fo) n
• Finnish: datiivi (fi)
• French: datif (fr) m, complément d'objet indirect (fr) m, C.O.I. m, (incompatible numbering traditions) troisième déclinaison, quatrième déclinaison
• Galician: caso dativo m
• Georgian: მიცემითი ბრუნვა (ka) (micemiti brunva), მიცემითი (ka) (micemiti), დატივი (daṭivi) (rare, linguistics)
• German: Dativ (de) m, Wemfall (de) m, dritter Fall m, Wem-Fall (de) m
• Greek: δοτική πτώση f (dotikí ptósi)

  Ancient Greek: δοτική f (dotikḗ)

• Gujarati: ચતુર્થી f (caturthī)
• Hungarian: részes eset (hu), részeshatározó eset, dativus (hu)
• Icelandic: þágufall (is) n
• Indonesian: datif (id)
• Irish: tabharthach (ga) m
• Italian: caso dativo m
• Japanese: 与格 (ja) (よかく, yokaku)
• Kashubian: datiw (csb) m, dôwôcz (csb) m
• Korean: 여격 (ko) (yeogyeok)
• Kyrgyz: барыш (ky) (barış)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: (casus) dativus m
• Latvian: datīvs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: naudininkas (lt) m
• Livonian: datīv
• Malay: kes kasus ketiga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: өгөх оршихын тийн ялгал (ögöx oršixyn tiin jalgal, literally “dative-locative case”), өгөхийн тийн ялгал (ögöxiin tiin jalgal, literally “dative case”) (uncommon)

• Norwegian: dativ (no) m, sidefall n
• Polish: celownik (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: caso dativo m, dativo (pt) m
• Romanian: caz dativ n, dativ (ro) n
• Russian: да́тельный паде́ж (ru) m (dátelʹnyj padéž), да́тельный (ru) m (dátelʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: tuiseal tabhartach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: датив m

  Latin: dativ (sh) m

• Slovak: tretí pád m, datív (sk) m
• Slovene: dajalnik (sl) m
• Southern Altai: берер (berer), беречи (bereči)
• Spanish: caso dativo m, dativo (es) m
• Swedish: dativ (sv) c
• Tamil: நான்காம் வேற்றுமை (ta) (nāṉkām vēṟṟumai)
• Telugu: చతుర్థీ విభక్తి (caturthī vibhakti)
• Thai: สัมปทานการก (th) (sǎm-bpà-taan-gaa-rók)
• Turkish: -e hâli (tr), datif (tr), yönelme (tr) hâli/durumu, -e hâli/durumu
• Ukrainian: дава́льний відмі́нок m (daválʹnyj vidmínok), дава́льний (uk) m (daválʹnyj)
• Vietnamese: tặng cách, dữ cách
• Volapük: kimefal, datif (vo)
• Welsh: dadiol m, derbyniol (cy) m
• Zazaki: halê çerğbıyayışi

See also

• accusative case
• Thesaurus:grammatical case

Further reading

• dative case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia