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Meanings of dative case in English

Russian
датив
Portuguese
dativo
Spanish
dativo
Catalan
cas datiu

Grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to which something is given.

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        Examples for "dat"
        Examples for "dat"
        1
        Mought ventur out leetle way pon de limb by myself, dat's true.
        Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
        2
        Not dat; not because he lofe me; because he ask me dat.
        Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West
        3
        Fast-notstop here; dat bad for you see by dem so soon.
        The Lost City
        4
        Sometime de Marse he tek ar ride in dat boat at night.
        Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
        5
        I disrememba, but I sposen she got buried in dat veil, chile.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        1
        Paul, who had been wool-gathering, went back to nominative, dative, and ablative.
        Despair's Last Journey
        2
        It's called panis; genitive, pani; dative, pano; vocative, panus; ablative, pano.
        Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, E...
        3
        The genitive and dative are changed in the next example (I. iii.
        Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
        4
        In that case one would parse it thus: nominative, HE; dative, HIM; possessive, HIS'N.
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        5
        It reminds Mary Leland that in Moscow, at Christmas, she lost the dative case.
        The Irish Times
        Usage of dative case in English
        1
        It reminds Mary Leland that in Moscow, at Christmas, she lost the dative case.
        The Irish Times
        2
        In the first place, I would leave out the Dative case.
        A Tramp Abroad
        3
        The Dative case is but an ornamental folly-itis better to discard it.
        A Tramp Abroad
        Translations for dative case