Dativ

Question 1

Verbs that require the Dativ case

Answer 1

• verbs that are positional and don’t require movement (answers the Wou (not Wuer) questions)
• Verbs with the underlying idea to transfer (object , idea, concept) to someone else

Ech “verb + something to someone“.
or better yet, the rephrased version
Ech “verb someone something“. ⇒

Many Luxembourgish verbs fit this pattern… ginn (to give), hëllefen (to help), erklären (to explain), soen (to say)… and the underlying idea is a transfer. Not transfer as in I move somewhere but something is being moved from one entity to another entity.
And whenever we are looking at a situation like this, in Luxembourgish the thing being transferred is in Accusative and the receiver is in Dative. What matters are the roles.

Dative is the receiver. That is its core. Receiving something. Dative receives.
## Footnote

sinn, goen, hëllefen.

Soen

Question 2

Prepositions that require the Dativ case

Answer 2

mat (with)

aus (from)

no (after)

vun (from / by / of )

säit / zanter (for / since )