English example sentences with "dative"

Dative is the death of genitive.
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When writing for a German newspaper, every few sentences you should replace some grammatical case with a dative, or a noun with its English translation, to make your article linguistically more interesting.
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Dative spells the death of the genitive.
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In Latin, there are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative.
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The dative case marks an indirect object.
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Russian has six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional.
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As Paul says, it is really perfectly gratuitous ("es ist im grunde reine willkur") to call the case we have in German (and Old English) a dative, for besides the functions of the dative it fulfils the functions of the old locative, ablative, and instrumental.
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Different verbs can have objects in the accusative or a different case (e.g. the dative or the ablative).
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Russian has six basic cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental and prepositional.
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