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Meaning of "dative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DATIVE

From Latin datīvus, from dare to give; translation of Greek dotikos.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DATIVE

ˈdeɪtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dative can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dative case

The dative case is a grammatical case generally used to indicate the noun to which something is given, as in "George gave Jamie a drink". In general, the dative marks the indirect object of a verb, although in some instances the dative is used for the direct object of a verb pertaining directly to an act of giving something. The thing being given may be a tangible object, such as "a book" or "a tapestry", or it may be an intangible abstraction, such as "an answer" or "help". In some languages, the dative case has assimilated the functions of other now-extinct cases. In Ancient Greek, the dative has the functions of the Proto-Indo-European locative and instrumental as well as those of the original dative. Sometimes the dative has functions unrelated to giving. In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is misleadingly used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article. In Georgian, the dative case also marks the subject of the sentence in some verbs and some tenses. This is called the dative construction.

Definition of dative in the English dictionary

The first definition of dative in the dictionary is denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives used to express the indirect object, to identify the recipients, and for other purposes. Other definition of dative is the dative case. Dative is also a word or speech element in this case.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DATIVE

accommodative · consolidative · contemplative · creative · degenerative · dissipative · elucidative · illative · innovative · integrative · irritative · modificative · multiplicative · native · oxidative · photooxidative · qualificative · stative · translative · uncreative

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DATIVE

dateless · dateline · dater · dates · Datin · dating · dating agency · dating service · datival · dative bond · datively · dato · datolite · datto · Datuk · datum · datum level · datum line · datum plane

WORDS THAT END LIKE DATIVE

active · administrative · alternative · collaborative · comparative · conservative · cooperative · cumulative · decorative · derivative · in the negative · informative · initiative · legislative · narrative · negative · operative · qualitative · quantitative · relative · representative

Synonyms and antonyms of dative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dative» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DATIVE

Find out the translation of dative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of dative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dative» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

与格
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

dativo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

dative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

संप्रदान कारक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صيغة المجرور
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

дательный
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

dativo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সম্প্রদানকারক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

datif
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Datif
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Dativ
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

与格
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

여격
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Dative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chỉ định
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

dative
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

विविध
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

datif
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

dativo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

celownik
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

давальний
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

dativ
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δοτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

datief
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dativ
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dativ
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DATIVE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of dative
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DATIVE»

Discover the use of dative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Dative
This book is the second part of a two-volume reader on the 'Dative'. In the first part, which appeared in 1996, eleven papers were presented providing a syntactic and semantic description of the category 'Dative' in eleven languages.
William van Belle, Willy van Langendonck, 1998
2
Grammar in Use Across Time and Space: Deconstructing the ...
The work also shows the importance of diachronic perspectives to help us better understand the ways in which a particular grammatical structure is represented synchronically.
Misumi Sadler, 2007
3
The Dative Alternation in the Interlanguage of German ...
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1.0, University of Siegen, language: English, abstract: Would you say you '...gave a good friend a scarf' or would you rather ...
Miriam Fuehrer, 2009
4
Non-nominative Subjects
Introduction I shall refer to the sentence type in which an NP with the Possessor- Experiencer theta-role has the dative case, by the neutral term 'dative construction. I shall prefer this term to 'dative subject construction, because I shall be ...
Peri Bhaskararao, Karumuri V. Subbarao, 2004
5
A-bar Syntax: A Study in Movement Types
Chapter. 4. Dative. movement. 1. Introduction. and. overview. I will now turn to yet another type of A-bar movement (albeit one which - as will become obvious very soon - shares a number of properties with classic A- movement). The movement ...
Gereon M Ller, 1995
6
The Dative of Agency; a Chapter of Indo-European Case-Syntax
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com).
Alexander Green, 2010
7
Spatial Concepts in Slavic: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of ...
4 The spatial meaning of the dative case The dative case is one of the two cases in Croatian - the other being the instrumental - that carries spatial meaning in its bare (i.e., prepositionless) form. Moreover, the dative is employed in several ...
Ljiljana Šarić, 2008
8
Variation in the Input: Studies in the Acquisition of Word Order
Chloe C. Gu Abstract This chapter investigates the development of word order of dative constructions in English and Cantonese speaking children. Corpus data from English monolingual andCantonese-English bilingual childrenshowthatthe ...
Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen, Marit Richardsen Westergaard, 2010
9
Studies in Greek Syntax
NP in the accusative, while in Spanish the clitic licenses the only available type of dative object, which happens to be introduced by a preposition. In Spanish, then, the preposition is not in itself sufficient to license the indirect object; if the ...
Artemis Alexiadou, G.C. Horrocks, Melita Stavrou, 1999
10
Experiencer Subjects in South Asian Languages
The Dative Subject Construction is a typological feature of south asian languages . The most widely-accepted, "standard" analysis of this construction (Kachru ( 1970), Agesthialingam (1972), Krishnamurthi (1975). Masica (1976), Sridhar ...
Manindra K. Verma, Karuvannur Puthanveettil Mohanan, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Documenting the Diversity of American English
... the construction “so don't I” (meaning “I do too”), and the Personal Dative (“I need me …”). They've organized these grammatical structures in ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
2
Roger Olson's 'Arminian Theology'– Part Fifteen
... is a righteousness that comes from God that is based on (epi with the dative case of the noun) faith'. This I think deals with the matter directly. «Patheos, Jun 15»
3
(P) The ROLANG manual, “Learn Romanian”, reaches its 3rd edition
... personal pronouns in the accusative and dative, impersonal phrases with pronouns in the dative cases, possessive structures, demonstrative ... «Romania-Insider.com, Jun 15»
4
Literacy in the groove
In The Case Song, they use arm gestures as they learn about the accusative, genitive and dative cases. The 34-year-old Goddard said, “I think ... «The Statesman, Jun 15»
5
Jonathan Goddard: Meet the man using rap to make Latin a hip new …
In “The Case Song”, they use arm gestures as they learn about the accusative, genitive and dative cases. Mr Goddard, 34, said: “I think these ... «The Independent, May 15»
6
A Quick and Dirty Guide to the Russian Language
Take a look at the dative and prepositional cases for feminine nouns. The endings are the same. This means that even if you think you should ... «Russia!, May 15»
7
Leoncie Claims Gay Rights Association Is Behind Death Threats
The letter was written with poor Icelandic grammar–the sentence is notably missing a “you” in the dative case. Pulled from Leoncie's Facebook. «Reykjavík Grapevine, May 15»
8
Monthly etymology gleanings for April 2015
Russian domoi is an old dative of dom “home,” domovi, with the loss of v. Domovi and very similar forms of this dative are extant in some Slavic ... «OUPblog, Apr 15»
9
Peter Pan: the Ultimate Alt-Bro
... religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate-pudding day, getting into braces, say ... «Brooklyn Rail, Apr 15»
10
Caregivers taken to court, accused of bilking Alzheimer's patient of …
Lynn Dupree, independent dative executrix of the succession of Marjorie Olene Blake, filed suit against Paul L. Juarez Jr., Gayan S. Jaurez and ... «The Louisiana Record, Apr 15»
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