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phrase using "to": "he gave a book to me". In general, the dative (German: Dativ) is used to mark the indirect object of a German sentence. For example:

Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (English: The Dative is the Death of the Genitive) is a series of books by Bastian Sick which deal in an entertaining

uses cartoons to explain the problems presented by their poor usage. Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod Linguistic prescription Standard English Lynne

There are seven cases: nominative (nominatīvs) genitive (ģenitīvs) dative (datīvs) accusative (akuzatīvs) instrumental (instrumentālis) locative (lokatīvs)

punctuation, and style. In 2004, 50 of these columns were published as Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. More than two million copies of this book were

adjuncts, possession, prepositions of motion, time and location 3. třetí pád dativ dative Indirect objects, prepositions of motion 4. čtvrtý pád akuzativ accusative

-∅/-te -e -e(n) -e -∅/-et -e -en -e -∅ -e Genitiv – – – – – – -er – – – Dativ -en/-em -er -en/-em -en -en -e(n) -en -en -en -e -∅ -e Accusative -en -e

the nominative. Dative forms with the ending -e, known in German as the Dativ-e (dem Gotte, dem Manne) are mostly restricted to formal usage, but widely

obsolete by modern formulations. There is a well-known German saying "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod" (The dative case is the death of the genitive

found. The construction is deliberately used as a pun in the title of Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (lit. The dative is to the genitive its death instead