Originally posted by: TseDanylo on Duolingo Archived here
Вітаю!
Ukrainian is an East Slavic language spoken primarily in Western Ukraine by 40 million people making it the third most spoken Slavic language by number of native speakers in the world!
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What is a Dative Verb?
A dative verb is a verb that puts its direct object into the Dative Case (The next post will be on it). This is unlike most verbs which use the Accusative case; known as Transitive Verbs. The verb we will use as an example is дзвонити meaning to call or to telephone.
Дзвонити - To phone
Here is the verb in the present tense. It is a conjugation II verb. You can read more on that here
- Я дзвоню
- Ти дзвониш
- Він/Вона/Воно дзвонить
- Ми дзвонимо
- Ви дзвоните
- Вони дзвонять
Examples
- Я щодня дзвоню тобі - I call you everyday
- Марія сказала що, вона хоче дзвонити йому вранці - Maria said she wants to call him in the morning
- Оля і Віктор дзвонять мені коли я вдома - Olga and Viktor call me when I am at home