Dative case
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The dative case is a case that prototypically marks the recipient of ditransitive verbs of transfer such as 'give'.
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Origin
The term dative goes back to antiquity. It is derived from Latin (cāsus) datīvus 'case of giving' (cf. dare 'give', which itself is a calque of Greek (ptóòsis) dotikée.
