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Bastian Sick, in his delightful series of grammar-maven books about German usage, "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod", or "The Dative is the Death of the Genitive", has described the spread of the apostrophe.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Philip Hensher 2012
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Bastian Sick, in his delightful series of grammar-maven books about German usage, "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod", or "The Dative is the Death of the Genitive", has described the spread of the apostrophe.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Philip Hensher 2012
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Of course "agentive/instrumental" function is also often claimed for the Locative and Dative by different "specialists" so who knows if that is even real.
Ipa ama hen 2010
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Accusative/Dative (Object): (singular) thee, (plural) you.
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Dative survived by digging sweet potatoes from the fields, and comes here now as a docent to tell the story of her family members who rest among the bones on the shelves.
Georgianne Nienaber: Remembering The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years Later (SLIDESHOW) 2009
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Accusative/Dative (Object): (singular) thee, (plural) you.
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Dative saw how “people were being killed like dogs and ran away and hid in the bush for one month.”
Georgianne Nienaber: Remembering The Rwandan Genocide 15 Years Later (SLIDESHOW) 2009
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Accusative/Dative (Object): (singular) thee, (plural) you.
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Dative: clevereri or, alternately, clevererae, although this usage is disputed by people with doctorates who email news networks
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No sir; he is des Hundes; put him in the Dative case & what is he?
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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