(in some languages )用于某些语言 the form of a noun, a pronoun or an adjective when it is the indirect object of a verb or is connected with the indirect object 与格(名词、代词或形容词用作间接宾语或与间接宾语相关时的一种形式) In the sentence, ‘I sent her a postcard’, the word ‘her’ is in the dative. 在 I sent her a postcard 一句中,her 一词处于与格。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin (casus) dativus ‘(case) of giving’, from dat- ‘given’, from the verb dare.