Dative

Dative is the death of genitive.

When writing for a German newspaper, every few sentences you should replace some grammatical case with a dative, or a noun with its English translation, to make your article linguistically more interesting.

Dative spells the death of the genitive.

In Latin, there are six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative.

The dative case marks an indirect object.

Russian has six cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, and prepositional.

As Paul says, it is really perfectly gratuitous ("es ist im grunde reine willkur") to call the case we have in German (and Old English) a dative, for besides the functions of the dative it fulfils the functions of the old locative, ablative, and instrumental.

Different verbs can have objects in the accusative or a different case (e.g. the dative or the ablative).

Russian has six basic cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental and prepositional.