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datives

datives is the plural of dative.

Meaning of dative

Noun

dative (plural datives)

  1. The dative case.
  2. A word inflected in the dative case.

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Phrases with datives

Questions about datives

What is datives the plural of?
Datives is the plural of dative.

Words near datives in the dictionary

  1. dative of purpose
  2. dative shift
  3. dative shifts
  4. dative sickness
  5. datively
  6. datives
  7. datives of purpose
  8. dativity
  9. dativizable
  10. dativization
  11. dativize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: datives (page history and authors); dative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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