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单词 dative
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dative


da·tive

D0036800 (dā′tĭv)adj. Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case that marks the recipient of action, that often indicates the indirect object of the verb, and that can be used with prepositions or other function words corresponding in meaning to English to and for.n.1. The dative case.2. A word or form in the dative case.
[Middle English datif, from Latin (cāsus) datīvus, (case) of giving (translation of Greek dotikē ptōsis), from datus, past participle of dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]
da′tive·ly adv.

dative

(ˈdeɪtɪv) grammaradj (Grammar) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives used to express the indirect object, to identify the recipients, and for other purposesn (Grammar) a. the dative caseb. a word or speech element in this case[C15: from Latin datīvus, from dare to give; translation of Greek dotikos] datival adj ˈdatively adv

da•tive

(ˈdeɪ tɪv)
adj. 1. of or designating a grammatical case that typically indicates the indirect object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions. n. 2. the dative case. 3. a word or other form in the dative case. [1400–50; datif < Latin datīvus (casus) dative (case) <dat(us) given (see date1)] da•ti′val (-ˈtaɪ vəl) adj. da′tive•ly, adv.

dative

A noun case that indicates the indirect object of a verb.
Thesaurus
Noun1.dative - the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verbdative caseoblique, oblique case - any grammatical case other than the nominative
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dative


dative

(dā`tĭv) [Lat.,=giving], in Latin grammar, the casecase,
in language, one of the several possible forms of a given noun, pronoun, or adjective that indicates its grammatical function (see inflection); in inflected languages it is usually indicated by a series of suffixes attached to a stem, as in Latin amicus,
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 typically used to refer to an indirect object, i.e., a secondary recipient of an action. For example, him in I gave him a book is translated in Latin by a dative case. The Latin dative also has other uses; and the cases called dative in other languages correspond in their grammatical function only in part to that of the Latin. The residual dative case in English was treated in the early work of Noam ChomskyChomsky, Noam
, 1928–, educator and linguist, b. Philadelphia. Chomsky, who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955, developed a theory of transformational (sometimes called generative or transformational-generative) grammar that revolutionized
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Dative


Related to Dative: dative bond

DATIVE. That which may be given or disposed of at will and pleasure. It sometimes means that which is not cast upon the party by the law, or by a testator, but which is given by the magistrate; in this sense it is that tutorship is dative, when the tutor is appointed by the magistrate. Lec. Elem. Sec. 239; Civ. Code of L. art. 288, 1671.

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dative


Related to dative: dative bond
  • noun

Synonyms for dative

noun the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb

Synonyms

  • dative case

Related Words

  • oblique
  • oblique case
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