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dative

In the grammar of certain inflected languages (see language) such as Latin, the dative case is the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective used for the indirect object of a verb. It is also used with some prepositions.

In ‘Joan sent the man a letter’, the man is the indirect object – the indirect recipient of the action of the verb. Similarly, in ‘Joan sent me a letter’, me is in the dative case as the indirect object. The form of the pronoun (me, not ‘I’) is the same as for the direct object. In English only certain pronouns change form with case; nouns never do.



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