But substantival datives and accusatives, as in Modern English, follow the predicate.
These umlaut dativesare all due to the presence of a former i.
They may be genitives or possessives, which were originallydatives or accusatives; in which case they are deduced from the Anglo-Saxon mec and þec.
In other words, why do we call him and them accusatives rather than datives or genitives?
Certain datives are used with a form of #sum# to denote what a thing tends to, proves, or is.
A few datives are used to denote what a thing is intended to be.
In other words, why do we call him and them {240} accusatives rather than datives or genitives?
Greek inflections are employed, but not with the licence of Catullus; there are no datives in i or sin like Tethyi or Dryasin; Greek constructions are fairly numerous, e.
Datives of nouns in +man+, used with infinitival functions, are very common in the Veda; e.
With regard to them it becomes still clearer how impossible it would be to distinguish between datives of abstract nouns, and other grammatical forms, to be called infinitives.
What applies to dativesof nouns in i, applies with still greater force to datives of nouns in ti.
But the datives are hitherto so clearly dativesof relation that we think this also must be so explained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "datives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
