A Door Into Urdu: Lesson 6

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1. Dative Case

2. Special dative forms

3. Dative constructions

4. The Infinitive as a Noun

5. Imperatives

6. Past of ہونا

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6.1	Dative Case

For indirect objects, as well as for a number of special idiomatic constructions, Urdu uses a special form of the oblique case, called the dative case. The basic form of the dative case is just the oblique of the noun or pronoun followed by the postposition کو ("to").

Examples:

رام کو	to Ram
عورت کو	to the woman
مُجھ کو	to me
اُن کو	to them
میں پیسے لڑکے کو دیتا ہُوں۔	I give the money to the boy

We will learn many different uses of the dative case.

See Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi (2000)
Section 5.4 page 67