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The Dative Case in Latin: An Overview
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The Dative Case in Latin: An Overview

Learn how to Recognise and to Understand the Dative Case in Latin
Created bySean Gabb
Last updated 9/2021
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to recognise the Dative Case in Latin
  • Learn how to distinguish between similar endings of the Latin nouns
  • Learn why the Dative Case exists
  • Gain a solid understanding of the Dative Case as the Latin equivalent of direct and indirect objects in English
  • Prepare yourself for progress to the Genitive and Ablative Cases

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 46m total length

  • Introduction4:09

    Introduction to the Course

  • Lecture 2: The Distinction between Subject and Object3:35

    This Lecture explains the fundamental distinction in both England and Latin between subject and object.

  • Lecture 3: The Nominative and Accusative5:58

    This Lecture shows how subject and object are shown in Latin by the use of the Nominative and Accusative Cases.

  • Lecture 4: Introducing the Dative Case3:31

    This Lecture introduces the Dative Case and shows its forms for the first three declensions of nouns.

  • Lecture 5: The Problem of Duplicates8:08

    This Lecture explains how to deal with the various duplicated endings of the Latin case-endings - which can be a serious barrier to learning the use of these forms.

  • Lecture 6: Other Questions Arising2:40

    This Lecture deals with the further question of why there is a Dative Case in Latin.

  • Lecture 7: Direct and Indirect Objects7:43

    This is the key Lecture, dealing with the main use of the Dative Case to do what is done in English with prepositions and word-order.

  • Lecture 8: Verbs that Take the Dative2:29

    This Lecture explains some of the verbs that take a Dative Case as their object - these usually have some correspondence with the equivalents of these verbs in English.

  • Lecture 9: Impersonal Constructions with the Dative7:58

    This Lecture explains some of the often difficult impersonal constructions where an indirect verb takes a Dative as its effective subject.

Requirements

  • Though these are refreshed in the videos, you should have an understanding of Nominative and Accusative Cases in Latin

Description

In this course of video lessons, I want to give a brief explanation of the dative case in Latin – how to recognise it and what it does.

If you are not able to recognise the dative case, or not able to understand how it is used, your progress in Latin will come to a sudden and perhaps a final stop. If you do know the dative, you will have no trouble with the genitive and ablative. Indeed, you will have no further trouble in principle with learning Latin.

Therefore – and here is a phrase, I will use several times in this course of videos – a full understanding of the dative case is of critical importance. You cannot make solid progress in Latin until you have mastered it. Therefore these videos. In them I explain how to recognise the dative case, and how to distinguish it from other case-endings that are identical and that can be confusing. I also show the basic use of the dative, which is to show the distinction in Latin between direct and indirect objects in a sentence. Finally, I look at some of the other uses of the dative.

I hope you will find the videos useful, and that you will be encouraged to check out my other courses.

Who this course is for:

  • Learners of Latin for the National Latin Examination in America, or GCSE Latin in England, or for the Latin component of the Common Entrance examination

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