Credere with Dative or Accusative

1. What case does credere take?
2. How do you know if something is accusative or dative?
3. Does credo take the dative?

What case does credere take?

The entry implied that the earlier usage of credere was more common in business where it conveyed consignment of goods or money to another person. In this sense, where it meant "loan", "entrust", or "consign", the item of interest took the accusative while the person was expressed in the dative.

How do you know if something is accusative or dative?

DATIVE AND ACCUSATIVE OBJECTS

In the simplest terms, the accusative is the direct object that receives the direct impact of the verb's action, while the dative is an object that is subject to the verb's impact in an indirect or incidental manner.

Does credo take the dative?

"Crēdō" can be used both with nouns in accusative and dative. If used with a noun in dative, you can think of it as being translated (for your specific example) as "I place my trust in boy".