Crossword-Solution: DATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dative | a. | Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. |
| Dative | a. | In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office. |
| Dative | a. | Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer. |
| Dative | a. | Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law. |
| Dative | n. | The dative case. See Dative, a., 1. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “DATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| German grammar case | 1 answer |
| the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | 1 answer |
| Removable, in law. | 1 answer |
| Objective noun | 1 answer |
| Latin grammatical case indicating an indirect object | 1 answer |
| Latin grammatical case | 1 answer |
| Latin grammar case | 1 answer |
| Kind of case in grammar | 1 answer |
| It's a case | 1 answer |
| Grammatical case used in the motto " _Sic semper tyrannis_ " | 1 answer |
| Grammatical case in Latin and German | 1 answer |
| Grammatical case in Latin | 1 answer |
| Grammar case | 1 answer |
| Certain case, in Latin grammar | 1 answer |
| Case in Latin | 1 answer |
| A grammatical case | 1 answer |
| A case for Cicero | 1 answer |
| Case for an indirect object, in grammar | 1 answer |
| Latin case | 2 answers |
| A case, in grammar. | 3 answers |
| Grammatical case | 3 answers |
| Case in grammar. | 4 answers |
| Kind of case | 10 answers |
| A GRAMMATICAL NUMBER | 10 answers |
| CERTAIN CASE, IN LATIN GR | 10 answers |
| A WORD OR PHRASE OR CLAUSE FORMING PART OF A LARGER GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DATIVE (5)
The suppression of the relative, both nominative and accusative or dative, is not uncommon; and, until the reader becomes familiar with it, it often gives, especially if the suppression is that of a subject relative, a momentary, but only a momentary, check to the understanding of a passage.
After a night behind the scenes Paul found the schoolroom more than ever repulsive; the bare floors and naked walls; the prosy men who never wore frock coats, or violets in their buttonholes; the women with their dull gowns, shrill voices, and pitiful seriousness about prepositions that govern the dative.
Irving has rightly construed the "Testament Dative" which he gives in his appendix--save arrears to the sum of 100 pounds of his Crossraguel pension.
The genitive case with them is also obsolete; the dative supplies its place: they say the House ‘to’ a Man, instead of the House ‘of’ a Man.
This participle they add to the dative, [Greek omitted], "to the gates," "to the woods." Besides, they say [Greek omitted] for "name", and [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted], "disease" and [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted], "empty," and [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted], "black." And then they change long [Greek letter] into [Greek letter], as[Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted], "Juno," and for [Greek omitted], Minerva.
Quotes with DATIVE (2)
A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now you put that dog in the Genitive case, & is he the same dog he was before? No sir; he is das Hundes; put him in the Dative case & what is he? Why, he is dem Hund. Now you snatch him into the accusative case & how is it with him? Why he is den Hunden? ... Read more But suppose he happens to be twins & you have to pluralize him — what then? Why sir they’ll swap that twin dog around …
As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other nouns in that tongue had always been one of his weak points. In Latin, as in most simple dialects of the region, a construction like servus puer meant about the same thing as puer servus, and even in English slave boy meant boy slave. But there the similarity ended. He had finally learned that house cat did not mean cat house, and that …
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 40 times in crossword archives (1946–2023).