Dative of Personal Interest?

1. What is personal datives?
2. What is the dative of personal agent?
3. What is the Greek dative of interest?
4. What is dative of personal advantage?

What is personal datives?

A personal dative is a pronoun that occurs immediately after a verb whose subject and pronoun are coreferential &em; they refer to the same person. For example, in the following sentences, them and me are personal datives that are coreferential with they and I, respectively: 1) a. They bought them a car.

What is the dative of personal agent?

The agent in Latin is typically expressed by ab + the ablative case: haec a te facta sunt = "these things were done by you." With the passive periphrastic, however, the Romans used the dative case to indicate the person who ought to do the necessary or obligatory thing.

What is the Greek dative of interest?

The Dative-Indirect Object/personal Interest is the most common use of the dative case when a preposition is not used. Often, the translator will use the key words “to” or “for” in the translation. As an indirect object, the dative case is used to point out the person “to whom” or “for whom” something is done.

What is dative of personal advantage?

The dative often depends, not on any particular word, but on the general meaning of the sentence (Dative of Reference). The dative in this construction is often called the Dative of Advantage or Disadvantage,¹ as denoting the person or thing for whose benefit or to whose prejudice the action is performed.