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Dative Singular
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Dative Singular
Recipients, experiencers, targets, routes, and complete singular agreement
Recipients, experiencers, targets, routes, and complete singular agreement
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Module 3.08
- Estimated time
- 45 minutes
- Lesson steps
- 10
Deliberately not taught here
- Boundary: This module practises adjectives inside dative noun phrases. Adjectives that themselves license complements, such as поле́зный кому, are systematised in Module 3.14.
Small steps
What you will learn
- The dative singular profile Dative commonly presents a participant as recipient, beneficiary, experiencer, target, or reference point.
- Masculine and neuter: -ому and -ему Use the adjective's diagnostic family to choose the ending and preserve its spelling pattern.
- Feminine: -ой and -ей Feminine dative adjectives reuse forms seen in other singular oblique cases.
- Recipients and transferred themes Giving, sending, showing, telling, and writing often combine a dative recipient with an accusative theme.
- Dative-selecting verbs Many verbs lexicalise a target or affected participant in dative rather than accusative.
- Experiencers without a nominative subject Russian often presents the person experiencing a state in dative.
- Target with к К + dative marks movement, orientation, approach, or relation toward a target.
- High-frequency meanings of по По frequently selects dative for route, distribution, basis, channel, and conformity, but it has several constructions.
- A whole-phrase verification pass Dative form choice is safest when governor, head, adjective family, noun ending, and stress are checked in order.
- Dative singular assessment Choose dative from the construction and then complete agreement across the phrase.
Mastery
Ready means you can...
- form masculine, neuter, and feminine dative singular adjective phrases
- use recipient, beneficiary, experiencer, and target constructions
- build phrases after к and high-frequency meanings of по
- distinguish syncretic feminine forms through governors and noun endings