"Dative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ngurandyi, from the camp. In this case, and also in the dative, the final g of both words is omitted before ...
— The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales • Robert Hamilton Mathews
... cases in Old English: the nominative, the genitive, the dative, the accusative, and the instrumental.[1] Each of them, except the nominative, may be governed by prepositions. When used without prepositions, they have, in ...
— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith
... with them is also obsolete; the dative supplies its place: they say the House 'to' a Man, instead of the House 'of' a Man. When used (sometimes in poetry), the genitive in the termination is the same as the nominative; so is the ablative, the ...
— The Coming Race • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... the names— Nominative case for the Subject pronouns Accusative " " " Direct object pronouns Dative " " ...
— Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) • C. A. Toledano
... of the declension of Celtic nouns.—In Irish there is a peculiar form for the dative plural, as cos foot, cos-aibh to feet (ped-ibus); and beyond this there is nothing else whatever in the way of case, as found in the German, Latin, Greek, and other tongues. Even the isolated form in question is not found in the Welsh and Breton. ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
... to be the sense of [Greek: mantis ennoia]. Blomfield would add [Greek: ennoia] to the dative, which is easier. ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus
... xvi. 3—in which [Hebrew: l] with [Hebrew: qC] occurs in the very same sense—clearly show that the [Hebrew: l] in [Hebrew: lwlvM] and [Hebrew: lmrbh] may very well be understood as a mere sign of the Dative. And the objection that the following [Hebrew: lhkiN], &c. would, in that case, be unsuitable, is removed if it be explained: so that He establisheth, &c., or: by His establishing, &c.; comp. Ewald, ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg |
