Dative
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The Dative suffix is /-KA/
Use cases
- Marks a recipient of verbal action, indirect object
- Marks causee in causative constructions
- Marks agent in passive constructions
- Used like Locative in past and future tenses (Locative is used in present tense)
- Sometimes used directionally instead of Directive
- Marks experiencer subject with certain adjectival predicates
- Dative marked present-future participle forms may function as infinitival complements
- Sometimes marks possessors