Odp: [tied] Re: Dative Case.

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> The Bronze Rider? The inscription is bilingual, Latin and Russian:

That's the official name of that monument?

> PETRO PRIMO CATARINA SECVNDA
> PETRU PERVOMU EKATERINA VTORAJA
>
> "To Peter the First, Catherine the Second"
>
> The cases are the dative and the nominative, respectively.
>
> Piotr

It gets tough to translate it word-for-word into English. You have to
do a 'from' or 'by', or 'gives to'.