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- Practice the English pronunciation of dative with real speech in context.
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- Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal 17 minutes
For example, the dative construction in English.
- Definition summary
- (grammar) Denoting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
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How to pronounce dative
Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal 17 minutes
For example, the dative construction in English.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “dative”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (grammar) Denoting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
- (obsolete, law) In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege.
- (obsolete, law) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; — said of an officer.
- (obsolete, law) Given by a judge, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law itself.
- (sciences) Formed by two electrons contributed by one atom; see dative bond.
- (mathematics, obsolete) Given in advance; not needed to be calculated.
- [Noun]
- (grammar) The dative case.
- (grammar) A word inflected in the dative case.
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