dative case

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsdative

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Questions about dative case

What does dative case mean?

dative case means "the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb".

What is another word for dative case?

Close synonyms include dative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dative case a common word?

dative case is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.